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Ginsberg, Debra About My Sisters
Harper Paperbacks 2005 0060522038 / 9780060522032 Paperback Fine n/a Paperback
New. Fine in publisher's decorated wrappers. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.From Publishers Weekly: Ginsberg is on her way to becoming a professional memoirist: she's penned books on raising a child, her life as a waitress, and now, on her eccentric, close-knit family, focusing on sisterhood. With eloquence, deep feeling and altruism, Ginsberg (Waiting; Raising Blaze) depicts the life of her family through a year of celebrations and crises. Each event unleashes a cascade of memories that circle back, by the end of each chapter, to expose a particular facet of the four sisters' complicated relations with one another and the rest of the family. Ginsberg writes of her youngest sister Deja's ability to cure her driving phobia; Lavendar's talent for getting Ginsberg's son to act responsibly; the exalted position of her brother in a family of girls; the family's competitiveness; and her lifelong intimacy with her sister Maya, with whom she lives: "I never even put `sister' before her name when I talk about her. She is the part of me who is Maya." Ginsberg seems to be answering a math problem: with two parents, five grown children, one grandchild and a varying number of boyfriends, how many different combinations are possible? As parents, children and siblings group and regroup in the complex dance of family relationships, each individual's soul emerges. Quarrels often erupt during the family's frequent get-togethers, but never for a moment will readers doubt their loyalty to one another. Ginsberg's nonfiction is as entertaining as a novel, but its greatest achievement is showing how love is not an emotion but an action, living and growing. Copyright ¬ Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.From Booklist: Women who don't have sisters, and, of course, men, may never fully understand the extraordinary bond that sisters can have. In another candid, autobiographical, and instructive book, Ginsberg sheds some light on the special relationship that she has with her three sisters in the same manner that she wrote about her life as a waitress in Waiting (2000) and coping with a learning-disabled child in Raising Blaze (2002). While it could never be said that her family was "usual" in any respect--her parents seem to have been the ultimate in free-spirited nomads, while remaining utterly committed to stable family life--there is a closeness and a sense of community among the sisters that many readers will relate to their own sibling relationships. The sisters remain physically and emotionally close to their parents and brother, and they live fairly unconventional lives. Ginsberg succeeds in writing about her family in a manner that is both intimate and objective. Warm, funny, and true, this tribute to sisterhood is well worth reading. Danise Hoover Copyright ¬ American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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