The Mama Chronicles: A Memoir
Winner of the 2022 Life Writing Award
from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters
A funny, poignant account of a mother-daughter relationship.
From the University Press of Mississippi
As her mother's health deteriorated, Teresa Nicholas found herself spending more time in Yazoo City, Mississippi, the small town where she'd grown up and which she thought she'd left behind. There she grew closer to her mother, coaxing stories from her about her hardscrabble past. The Mama Chronicles is about their late-to-get-going mother-daughter relationship, and ultimately provides a meditation on acceptance and what it means to call a place home.
Praise for THE MAMA CHRONICLES
“Teresa Nicholas artfully sews together a complex Mississippi quilt of family, place, and memory."
--W. Ralph Eubanks, A PLACE LIKE MISSISSIPPI
"The connection between mother and daughter is defining, miraculous, maddening, and bone deep.'"
--Ellen Ann Fentress, journalist and essayist
"The Mama Chronicles provides insight into caregiving...there are few memoirs that invite the reader into a personal story."
--Sharon Leslie Morgan, GATHER AT THE TABLE
“Teresa Nicholas knows how to tell a story."
--Susan Cushman, Jackson Clarion-Ledger
"Teresa Nicholas always had a curiosity surrounding her mother's life. She has taken those reflections and brought them to life." --Yazoo Herald
Praise for THE MAMA CHRONICLES
“Teresa Nicholas artfully sews together a complex Mississippi quilt of family, place, and memory."
--W. Ralph Eubanks, A PLACE LIKE MISSISSIPPI
"The connection between mother and daughter is defining, miraculous, maddening, and bone deep.'"
--Ellen Ann Fentress, journalist and essayist
"The Mama Chronicles provides insight into caregiving...there are few memoirs that invite the reader into a personal story."
--Sharon Leslie Morgan, GATHER AT THE TABLE
“Teresa Nicholas knows how to tell a story."
--Susan Cushman, Jackson Clarion-Ledger
"Teresa Nicholas always had a curiosity surrounding her mother's life. She has taken those reflections and brought them to life." --Yazoo Herald