All our lives are made of moments, both simple and sublime, all of
which in some way partake of the cultural moment. Fleda Brown is
that rare writer who, in narrating the incidents and observations
of her life, turns her story, by wit and insight and a poet's gift,
into something more. This is an unconventional memoir. A series of
lyrical essays about life in a maddeningly complex family during
the even more maddeningly complex fifties and sixties, it adds up
to one woman's story while simultaneously reflecting the story of
her times. A strange and erratic father, a resigned and helpless
mother, a mentally disabled brother, a sister with a brain tumor:
folded into Brown's reflections are the intimacies and ambivalences
of family and marriage, girlhood and adolescence, identity and
self-knowledge. Whether reflecting on the automobile industry or a
wrenching parting from beloved pets or the process of aging,
Brown's telling rings with great humor, profound perception, and a
lyricism that makes even the most commonplace moment uncommonly
good reading.
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