{"product_id":"a-family-of-strangers-9781932511444","title":"A Family of Strangers","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\"Without self-absorption, Tall traces the self's emergence in a place which she recognized from the start as her testing place.\"--Seamus Heaney \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In the literature of place, Deborah Tall's book stands out for its delicacy, range of learning, and refreshing frankness.\"--Phillip Lopate \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her third book of nonfiction, Deborah Tall explores the genealogy of the missing. Haunted by her orphaned father's abandonment by his extended family, his secretive, walled-off trauma and absent history, she sets off in pursuit of the family he claims not to have. From the dutiful happiness of Levittown in the 1950s to a stricken former \u003ci\u003eshtetl\u003c\/i\u003e in Ukraine, we follow Tall's journey through evasions and lies. Reflecting on family secrecy, postwar American culture, and the urge for roots, Tall's search uncovers not just a missing family but an understanding of the part family and history play in identity. \u003ci\u003eA Family of Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e is Tall's life's work, told in such exacting, elegant language that the suppressed past vividly asserts its place in the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeborah Tall\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four books of poems, most recently \u003ci\u003eSummons\u003c\/i\u003e, published by Sarabande Books after Charles Simic chose it for the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize. She has also published two previous two books of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Island of the White Cow: Memories of an Irish Island\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFrom Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place, \u003c\/i\u003e and co-edited the anthology The Poet's Notebook with Stephen Kuusisto and David Weiss. Tall has taught writing and literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and edited its literary journal, Seneca Review, since 1982. She lives in Ithaca, New York, with her husband David Weiss and their two daughters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarabande Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781932511444\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.14w x 0.82d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/14\/2006 pg. 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2006 pg. 72\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Deborah Tall","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36670880383132,"sku":"9781932511444","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1eb8597a-ad68-433c-84f1-9fef05e26943.jpg?v=1603923866","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-family-of-strangers-9781932511444","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}