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9%OFFRebecca McClanahan - The Tribal Knot: A Memoir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change - 9780253008596 - V9780253008596
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The Tribal Knot: A Memoir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change

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Description for The Tribal Knot: A Memoir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change paperback. McClanahan looks for answers in the history of her family Series: Break Away Books. Num Pages: 344 pages, 35 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; BM; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.

Are we responsible for, and to, those forces that have formed us—our families, friends, and communities? Where do we leave off and others begin? In The Tribal Knot, Rebecca McClanahan looks for answers in the history of her family. Poring over letters, artifacts, and documents that span more than a century, she discovers a tribe of hardscrabble Midwest farmers, hunters, trappers, and laborers struggling to hold tight to the ties that bind them, through poverty, war, political upheavals, illness and accident, filicide and suicide, economic depressions, personal crises, and global disasters. Like the practitioners of Victorian "hair art" who wove ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Series
Break Away Books
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253008596
SKU
V9780253008596
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Rebecca McClanahan
Rebecca McClanahan, the author of nine previous books, including The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings, which won the Glasgow award in nonfiction, is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Wood Prize from Poetry, and fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council.

Reviews for The Tribal Knot: A Memoir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change
Far from a disinterested historian, she relishes her role in the family...Her joy is impossible to miss. Her curiosity about long-dead ancestors and her sympathy for the hard-working farm women are equally vivid.
Niche

Goodreads reviews for The Tribal Knot: A Memoir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change


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