Family : American writers remember their own

Title
  1. Family : American writers remember their own / edited by Sharon Sloan Fiffer and Steve Fiffer ; afterword by Jane Smiley.
Published by
  1. New York : Pantheon Books, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional authors
  1. Fiffer, Sharon Sloan, 1951-
  2. Fiffer, Steve.
Description
  1. xv, 253 pages : illustrations, portraits; 21 cm
Summary
  1. Meet the eccentric, eclectic family members of seventeen of America's finest writers in this dazzling, deeply moving collection of memoirs.
  2. Take advice from Alice Hoffman's wise grandmother, Lillie Lulkin. Keep watch over lone children with Brent Staples. Share with Bob Shacochis and his wife the heartbreaking sadness of two people longing to have a child.
  3. You can also listen in as Chang-rae Lee and his mother speak their own language; carefully contemplate life through the eyes of Whitney Otto's beloved, irascible cat; discover if Marion Winik is really, truly related to either Charlie Chaplin or Jann Wenner; and bar-hop with a five-year-old Stuart Dybek and his Polish grandfather.
  4. In joining this literary reunion, be prepared to discover your own sense of family history. Whether considering relations by blood, by marriage, by choice, or by chance, each writer here has something to share: skeletons, desires, sorrows, and joys. And in this Family, you will find that the pleasure of reading is much more than relative.
Subject
  1. Families > United States
  2. Authors, American > 20th century > Family relationships
Contents
  1. Introduction: Skeletons / Sharon Sloan Fiffer -- Advice from My Grandmother / Alice Hoffman -- The Runaway Son / Brent Staples -- The Faintest Echo of Our Language / Chang-rae Lee -- Papi / Edwidge Danticat -- Happy Blue Crabs / Jose Raul Bernardo -- Callie / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Cousin Elizabeth, Dancing / Elizabeth McCracken -- The Diary of Kali the Cat / Whitney Otto -- Neighbor / Beverly Donofrio -- Daddy Young and Old / Deborah Tannen -- Inspired Eccentricity: Sarah and Gus Oldham / Bell Hooks -- Heavy Lifting / Geoffrey Wolff -- Sympathy / Stuart Dybek -- My Famous Family / Marion Winik -- To the Point: Truths Only Essays Can Tell / Edward Hoagland -- From Here to Maternity / Bob Shacochis -- Afterword: Gen-Narration / Jane Smiley.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries