Newbern George
Author
Language
English
Description
An award-winning poet offers a multigenerational portrait of an American family - weaving together the lives of his ancestors and his parents and his own coming of age in the 60's and 70's in the wake of his father's suicide - in this superbly written, "fiercely honest" (Nick Flynn) memoir. The fifth of eight children, Chris Forhan was born into a family of silence. He and his siblings learned, without being told, that certain thoughts and feelings...