Family
Family by Ian Frazier, published by HarperCollins on September 21, 1995, is a 400-page exploration of the author’s family history spanning two centuries. In this work, Frazier narrates the lives of his ancestors from early colonial times to the present, weaving together personal stories with broader historical contexts. He visits the small towns where his family lived, examines the literature they engaged with, and reflects on the significant historical events that shaped their experiences.
Readers will find a detailed account of middle-class life, including observations of family members during pivotal moments such as the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. Frazier’s narrative includes interviews with relatives and community members, offering a rich tapestry of anecdotes and insights. This book presents a unique perspective on American history, blending personal and cultural narratives to create a comprehensive chronicle of familial and societal evolution.
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With the same quirky brilliance that drew fans to his previous work, Ian Frazier narrates the history of his family from early colonial days to the present. He reconstructs two hundred years of middle-class life, visiting small towns his ancestors lived in, reading the books they read, discovering the larger forces of history that affected them. He observes family members during the Revolutionary War; he follows others west as they pioneer in the wilderness of Ohio and Indiana, where schoolteachers were paid in whiskey and door hinges were made of bacon ride. He visits the battlefields where they fought the Civil War. He interviews old-timers, uncles, aunts, cousins, maids, a beer-store owner who knew his dad. Family is a poetic epic of facts, a chronicle of a culture’s rise and fall, a memorial, a view of American history as romantic as it is unflinching.
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