The Family Silver: A Memoir of Depression and Inheritance
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.80 (769 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226616649 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Beautifully written and full of insight O'Brien has written a "Memoir of Depression and Inheritance" and she succeeds brilliantly in all of these intentions. This book works beautifully as a memoir, evoking in three dimensions, in colour and almost with smells and sounds, the world of upper-middle class expectations and genteel failure and the anxieties of her parents, and the alternative world of Elmira, which to me has the ring of a magic land. The people - mother, father. A positive, often funny book about depression and family "Let me get this straight. You think that if you take 10 mg of Prozac a day instead of 20 mg, you'll be twice as good a person. And if you ever had to take A positive, often funny book about depression and family Jethro Manjay "Let me get this straight. You think that if you take 10 mg of Prozac a day instead of 20 mg, you'll be twice as good a person. And if you ever had to take 40 mg a day instead of 20, you'd been twice as bad a person.""That's it," she said.Sharon O'Brien is a successful English professor, especially respected as a Willa Cather specialist. O'Brien also suffers from recurrent depression. A few years ago, she was working on two projects: . 0 mg a day instead of 20, you'd been twice as bad a person.""That's it," she said.Sharon O'Brien is a successful English professor, especially respected as a Willa Cather specialist. O'Brien also suffers from recurrent depression. A few years ago, she was working on two projects: . Betsy P. Thompson said Just a little disappointed. I read this book for the reasons I think most people would read a book with this subtitle - to see if I could identify with the author and perhaps gain some new insight from her experience. As I progressed through it, I was amazed by the congruence of our experiences, but felt a rising call to let the author know her conclusions left me wondering how she could have missed the bigger picture, the common denominations that make it possi
Her quest for her inheritance took her straight into the pressures and possibilities of American culture, and then to the heart of her family--the generations who shaped and were shaped by one another and their moment in history. In The Family Silver, as O'Brien travels into her family's past, she goes beyond depression to discover courage, poetry, and grace.A compassionate and engaging writer, O'Brien uses the biographer's methods to understand her family history, weaving the scattered pieces of the past--her mother's memo books, her father's reading journal, family photographs, tombstones, dance ca
"A rewarding and thought-provoking take." -- Los Angeles Times, July 30, 2004"An extraordinary combination of social and personal history.O'Brien isa wise and compassionate narrator of her own rocky past." -- Chicago Tribune"With startling honesty and compassion, O'Brien unveils family stories of desire and despair." -- Library Journal, July 15, 2004