
It Runs In The Family: A Memoir
It Runs in the Family is a memoir of faith and willful ignorance, truths and secrets, rural and urban labor, and fire: fire as both knowledge and destructive force.Richard Manning was raised on a piece of farmland in Michigan, in a working- class family of Christian fundamentalists. Manning's father was a jack of many trades: farmer, carpenter, builder, power lineman, factory worker, small busines...
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; First edition (July 2, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312620306
ISBN-13: 978-0312620301
Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 1.2 x 8.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 2289801
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“Anyone who thinks they're a writer will not want to read Richard Manning. This is what writing looks like and it's discouraging to the rest of us. He packs more into a chapter than many do in a book. Manning has taken chances in his life in search...”
man. His mother concealed her own troubled childhood beneath a religious faith that explained away uncertainty, illness, and tragedy.Manning grew up learning how to work and what to believe---but came to understand his family's seemingly-normal facade as a mask for troubling secrets. It Runs in the Family is the story of Manning's journey away from his family, one that ranges from their Michigan farm to the fire-ravaged wilderness of Montana, and finally to a remote village in Panama, where he comes to pursue a past he had vowed to leave behind. Linking his own life with the larger story of his family, the land they inhabited, and the right-wing fundamentalist politics gaining ground in America, Richard Manning offers a singular memoir.
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