The Distancers: An American Memoir

In The Distancers, seven generations worth of joy and heartache is artfully forged into a family portrait that is at once universally American yet singularly Lee Sandlin's own. From the nineteenth century German immigrants who settled on a small Midwestern farm, to the proud and upright aunts and uncles with whom Sandlin spent the summers of his youth, a whole history of quiet ambition and stoic pride--of successes, failures, and above all endurance--leaps off the page in a sweeping American family epic. Touching on The Great Depression, WWII, and the American immigrant experience, The Distancers is a beautiful and stark Midwestern drama, about a time and place long since vanished, where the author learned the value of family and the art of keeping one's distance.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 08/13/2013
ISBN: 9780345806765
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.43h x 4.72w x 0.67d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2013
Booklist 07/01/2013 pg. 14