Gathering the Family
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.85 (651 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826211283 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Memoirs provide a locus of discovery for both reader and author. In Gathering the Family William Holtz traces his family history from Finnish immigrant grandparents who spoke no English through his own poverty-stricken, troubled upbringing. Through his exploration of memories, family photographs, and stories, Holtz illuminates his questions about those who gave him life and shaped him: a handsome but doomed father, an overworked mother, and an alcoholic brother whose greatest success seemed to occur at his death. . Not only is this a poi
More recently, in late middle age, Holtz has found himself reassessing his place in his family. The result is a deeply moving, lyrical, and sensitive memoir.In Gathering the Family the author re-creates scenes and episodes from his early life with his family. Although he begins his work as a biographer, Holtz comes to turn his researcher's eye on himself, frankly examining his thoughts of the family he grew up with. These interlocking essays examine the lives of his mother's struggling Finnish immigrant parents, who spoke no English; of his father's large, festive German American family; and of his doomed, laughing father, his gentle, overburdened mother, and his self-destruc
Keith Falk said This is my family. When my mother's cousin, Sylvia, called to tell her that Bill Holtz had written a book about our family, I was surprised. I had no idea anyone in the family was a college professor, let alone an author. Initially I was offended by what on the surface appeared to be a shabby treatment of family I had always loved or felt. A Lasting Tribute and an Excellent Read William Holtz takes a risk in this moving memoir of growing up during the Depression, inviting his readers along as he explores his childhood from the vantage point of roughly fifty years. He candidly discusses the people he loved, and whom he would one day deliberately leave behind, a family plagued with serious proble. Roger I believe was very much like his brother Bill Elle Unfortunately there is no way that Bill or Sylvia or Roger nor I could have helped Roger at that time of our lives. So little was known about genetic predisposition, cravings, addictions, malnutrition. I have read 7 weeks to Sobriety and gained a lot of understanding. I also continued on to read a number of other books