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Objects of Our Affection : Uncovering My Family's Past, One Chair, Pistol, and Pickle Fork at a Time by Lisa Tracy is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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After their mother's death, Lisa Tracy and her sister, Jeanne, are left to contend with several households' worth of furniture and memorabilia, much of it accumulated during their family's many decades of military service in far-flung outposts from the American frontier to the World War Two--era Pacific. In this engaging and deeply moving book, Tracy chronicles the wondrous interior life of those possessions and discovers that the roots of our passion for acquisition often lie not in shallow materialism but in our desire to possess the most treasured commodity of all: a connection to the past.What starts as an exercise in information gathering designed to boost the estate's resale value at auction evolves into a quest that takes Lisa Tracy from her New Jersey home to the Philippines and, ultimately, back to the town where she grew up. These travels open her eyes to a rich family history characterized by duty, hardship, honor, and devotion--qualities embodied in the very items she intends to sell. Here is an inventory unlike any other: silver gewgaws, dueling pistols that once belonged to Aaron Burr (no, not those pistols), a stately storage chest from Boxer Rebellion--era China, pr

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Author

Lisa Tracy

Publisher

Bantam Books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780553907346

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Design, Crafts & Hobbies

Rating

3.22 / 5 (13 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14