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A #1 New York Times bestselling author traces her fathers life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to New York City in an intimate memoir about family, memory, and the stories we tell. An accomplished, clear-eyed, and affecting memoir about a man who is at once ordinary and extraordinary. Forward Long before she was the acclaimed author of a groundbreaking book about women and men, praised by Oliver Sacks for having a novelists ear for the way people speak, Deborah Tannen was a girl who adored her father. Though he was often absent during her childhood, she was profoundly influenced by his gift for writing and storytelling. As she grew up and he grew older, she spent countless hours recording conversations with her father for the account of his life she had promised him shed write. But when he hands Tannen journals he kept in his youth, and she discovers letters he saved from a woman he might have married instead of her mother, she is forced to rethink her assumptions about her fathers life and her parents marriage. In this memoir, Tannen embarks on the poignant, yet perilous, quest to piece together the puzzle of her fathers life. Beginning with his astonishingly vivid memories of the
- Author
- Tannen, Deborah, author
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781101885857
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
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