This month I’m fortunate to be presenting three excellent pieces dealing with family history.
Jessica Keener’s “Not for Sale” skillfully delivers the sense of loss we all feel when our elders become infirm and we begin losing our sense of home. Tim Gomez, in “Action Figures,” goes back to the beginnings of family life—childhood—to give us a brilliant stream-of-consciousness portrait of the odd and primal world of the very young.
Dory Adams, in “Viewing Stories: From Warrior’s Mark to Arlington,” takes a more sweeping view, giving us a long and involving family history that relentlessly observes family relationships from a great number of fascinating angles. I’m sure you will enjoy these three very good and very different examples of how creative nonfiction can explore the conflicts and joys of living together as a family.