Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Tender Land: A Family Memoir


As a person whose family has been haunted by depression, reading The Tender Land: A Family Love Story, Kathleen Finneran's memoir, I felt melancholy, joy, and a will to experience the crazy kaleidoscope of nostalgia that family life can be. From uproarious laughter to outbursts of tears, reading her prose resurrected emotions long buried and a somber love of life unusual for me to feel. I hope you get a chance to read it. Its' stunning.

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