Lies about my family : a memoir /

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This family memoir is about the stories that are told and the ones that are not told, and about the ways the meanings of the stories change down the generations. It is about memory and the spaces between memories, and about alienation and reconciliation. All of Amy Hoffman's grandparents came t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hoffman, Amy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]
Ã2013
Subjects:
Hoffman, Amy.
Hoffman family.
Hoffman, Amy
Hoffman family
Jews > New Jersey > Rutherford > Biography.
Jewish lesbians > Biography.
Juifs > New Jersey > Rutherford > Biographies.
Lesbiennes juives > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gay Studies.
Jewish lesbians
Jews
Rutherford (N.J.) > Biography.
New Jersey > Rutherford
collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Family histories
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Family histories.
Histoires familiales.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Spinning
  • At the Lake #1
  • My Grandmother Was Sent Forth
  • The Sylvia Plath of the Lower East Side : An Immigrant Tragedy
  • The Madorskys Come to America
  • A Precious Family Artifact : The Tape
  • The Draft
  • Stuffing
  • Communists and Socialists and Their Ambitions
  • My Bat Mitzvah
  • The Jewish Policeman
  • Jazzin' with the Greats
  • My Father's Regrets
  • The Wedding
  • My Father Goes Down to Hell
  • At the Lake #2.

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