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The Tribal Knot: A Memoir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change
by McClanahan, Rebecca | PB | Good
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
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- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780253008596
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN-10
025300859X
ISBN-13
9780253008596
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3038292290
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tribal Knot : a Memoir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Topic
Sociology / General, Literary
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Book Series
Break Away Bks.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2012-277322
Reviews
This lovely, unsentimental memoir spins the multiple strands of McClanahan's family past into a living tapestry going back into the nineteenth century Midwest. I have never seen the familial panorama captured as living knowledge in such a moving way. Tragedies lie alongside daily struggles with McClanahan's own formation becoming intuitively known to the reader as she conjures her knot. When her time rolls around we already know her well. This is an unsparing book that is pulled into true by enduring attachment.--Suzannah Lessard, author of The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family, 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., To enter Rebecca McClanahan's memoir is to truly enter her life-her history, her geography, her tribe. The blending of photographs, letters, and diary entries into McClanahan's intelligent, lyrical and thoughtful prose makes this one of the fullest reading experiences I have had in a very long time., "Rebecca McClanahan's multi-generational memoir artfully weaves together more than a century of family documents, oral history, and historical records. With poetic elegance, McClanahan transforms ordinary life events into meaningful life stories. The Tribal Knot is not only an engaging read, but a literary model for those who yearn to write their own family story." -Sharon DeBartolo Carmack,, You Can Write Your Family History, "I think this is a very interesting and important contribution to the field of memoir as it is ambitious in its scope both in time covered and in the cast of characters. It is a fine sustained performance of imagination, making up a detailed human and humane past. It is also a very good work of "everyday" history. It recreates the lives of its characters but also captures with texture and depth the feel of everyday work and family life of rural Indiana from 1860 forward. It is profoundly touching. And in its details and efficient prose composition, it is accurate and moving when setting the family's life in the context of the greater regional, national, and world histories." -Michael Martone, Break Away Books Series editor, editor of Not Normal, Illinois (IUP 2009), "One of the many pleasures of The Tribal Knot is its detailed portrait of the place, its land and people, through the twentieth century. " -Niche, "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 "Rebecca McClanahan has written a magnificent book. The Tribal Knot is a loving portrait of a family across its generations. More than a genealogical trail, this is the story of a distinctly Midwestern family who captured my heart. I fell in love with, quibbled with, and worried over these people as if they were my own. I celebrated their joys, grieved for their losses, and mourned their deaths. McClanahan does such a marvelous job of making her ancestors come alive in this loving reminder of the ties that bind."--Lee Martin, From Our House and Turning Bones "Rebecca McClanahan's multi-generational memoir artfully weaves together more than a century of family documents, oral history, and historical records. With poetic elegance, McClanahan transforms ordinary life events into meaningful life stories. The Tribal Knot is not only an engaging read, but a literary model for those who yearn to write their own family story."--Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, author of You Can Write Your Family History "This lovely, unsentimental memoir spins the multiple strands of McClanahan's family past into a living tapestry going back into the nineteenth century Midwest. I have never seen the familial panorama captured as living knowledge in such a moving way. Tragedies lie alongside daily struggles with McClanahan's own formation becoming intuitively known to the reader as she conjures her knot. When her time rolls around we already know her well. This is an unsparing book that is pulled into true by enduring attachment."--Suzannah Lessard, author of The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family "Book like no other I've read, The Tribal Knot combines genres to become something entirely new. Memoir, novel, genealogy, biography, survivor's testimony, study of generations of women, love story, catalogue of precious quotidian details, and portrait of Twentieth Century American life, this book takes us where we've all been wanting to go but haven't until now seen how to get there. In this brilliant revitalizing of the oldest narrative we know, Rebecca McClanahan demonstrates how our lives depend on the story of our human family and why we can never get enough of it."--David Huddle, Nothing Can Make Me Do This and Blacksnake at the Family Reunion "To enter Rebecca McClanahan's memoir is to truly enter her life--her history, her geography, her tribe. The blending of photographs, letters, and diary entries into McClanahan's intelligent, lyrical and thoughtful prose makes this one of the fullest reading experiences I have had in a very long time."--Ann Hood, Comfort: A Journey through Grief and The Knitting Circle, "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." 'e"Niche, This lovely, unsentimental memoir spins the multiple strands of McClanahan's family past into a living tapestry going back into the nineteenth century Midwest. I have never seen the familial panorama captured as living knowledge in such a moving way. Tragedies lie alongside daily struggles with McClanahan's own formation becoming intuitively known to the reader as she conjures her knot. When her time rolls around we already know her well. This is an unsparing book that is pulled into true by enduring attachment., "Book like no other I've read, The Tribal Knot combines genres to become something entirely new. Memoir, novel, genealogy, biography, survivor's testimony, study of generations of women, love story, catalogue of precious quotidian details, and portrait of Twentieth Century American life, this book takes us where we've all been wanting to go but haven't until now seen how to get there. In this brilliant revitalizing of the oldest narrative we know, Rebecca McClanahan demonstrates how our lives depend on the story of our human family and why we can never get enough of it." -David Huddle, Nothing Can Make Me Do This and Blacksnake at the Family Reunion, "Rebecca McClanahan is a writer of heart and skill, as her publications and awards and the beauty of the language in The Tribal Knot make clear. McClanahan can't write a bad sentence. As a suggestion for revision, then, I think I would be more hooked by an introductory chapter that is about the author now, one that establishes the urgent questions that she has about herself, questions that can only be answered by beginning this research into the past, questions that the reader will hold in common with her. I'd like thinking that she begins with a question and that the narrative is perhaps even her doing the research and establishing the story. I like it when it's clear that she's in the present and is asking questions and getting answers from her mother. I'd love to know how she got all the letters, to understand the experience of putting this incredible amount of material together. I'm in awe of that." -Susan Neville, Author of Butler's Big Dance (IUP 2010) and Sailing the Inland Sea (IUP 2007), "This lovely, unsentimental memoir spins the multiple strands of McClanahan's family past into a living tapestry going back into the nineteenth century Midwest. I have never seen the familial panorama captured as living knowledge in such a moving way. Tragedies lie alongside daily struggles with McClanahan's own formation becoming intuitively known to the reader as she conjures her knot. When her time rolls around we already know her well. This is an unsparing book that is pulled into true by enduring attachment. " -Suzannah Lessard, author of The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family, "This lovely, unsentimental memoir spins the multiple strands of McClanahan's family past into a living tapestry going back into the nineteenth century Midwest. I have never seen the familial panorama captured as living knowledge in such a moving way. Tragedies lie alongside daily struggles with McClanahan's own formation becoming intuitively known to the reader as she conjures her knot. When her time rolls around we already know her well. This is an unsparing book that is pulled into true by enduring attachment." -Suzannah Lessard, author of The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family, "Rebecca McClanahan has written a magnificent book. The Tribal Knot is a loving portrait of a family across its generations. More than a genealogical trail, this is the story of a distinctly Midwestern family who captured my heart. I fell in love with, quibbled with, and worried over these people as if they were my own. I celebrated their joys, grieved for their losses, and mourned their deaths. McClanahan does such a marvelous job of making her ancestors come alive in this loving reminder of the ties that bind." -Lee Martin, From Our House and Turning Bones, Book like no other I've read, The Tribal Knot combines genres to become something entirely new. Memoir, novel, genealogy, biography, survivor's testimony, study of generations of women, love story, catalogue of precious quotidian details, and portrait of Twentieth Century American life, this book takes us where we've all been wanting to go but haven't until now seen how to get there. In this brilliant revitalizing of the oldest narrative we know, Rebecca McClanahan demonstrates how our lives depend on the story of our human family and why we can never get enough of it., Rebecca McClanahan has written a magnificent book. The Tribal Knot is a loving portrait of a family across its generations. More than a genealogical trail, this is the story of a distinctly Midwestern family who captured my heart. I fell in love with, quibbled with, and worried over these people as if they were my own. I celebrated their joys, grieved for their losses, and mourned their deaths. McClanahan does such a marvelous job of making her ancestors come alive in this loving reminder of the ties that bind., "Rebecca McClanahan has written a magnificent book. The Tribal Knot is a loving portrait of a family across its generations. More than a genealogical trail, this is the story of a distinctly Midwestern family who captured my heart. I fell in love with, quibbled with, and worried over these people as if they were my own. I celebrated their joys, grieved for their losses, and mourned their deaths. McClanahan does such a marvelous job of making her ancestors come alive in this loving reminder of the ties that bind." 'e"Lee Martin, From Our House and Turning Bones, Rebecca McClanahan's multi-generational memoir artfully weaves together more than a century of family documents, oral history, and historical records. With poetic elegance, McClanahan transforms ordinary life events into meaningful life stories. The Tribal Knot is not only an engaging read, but a literary model for those who yearn to write their own family story., "Book like no other I've read, The Tribal Knot combines genres to become something entirely new. Memoir, novel, genealogy, biography, survivor's testimony, study of generations of women, love story, catalogue of precious quotidian details, and portrait of Twentieth Century American life, this book takes us where we've all been wanting to go but haven't until now seen how to get there. In this brilliant revitalizing of the oldest narrative we know, Rebecca McClanahan demonstrates how our lives depend on the story of our human family and why we can never get enough of it." -David Huddle , Nothing Can Make Me Do This and Blacksnake at the Family Reunion, "This lovely, unsentimental memoir spins the multiple strands of McClanahan's family past into a living tapestry going back into the nineteenth century Midwest. I have never seen the familial panorama captured as living knowledge in such a moving way. Tragedies lie alongside daily struggles with McClanahan's own formation becoming intuitively known to the reader as she conjures her knot. When her time rolls around we already know her well. This is an unsparing book that is pulled into true by enduring attachment." 'e"Suzannah Lessard, author of The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family, "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, "Book like no other I'e(tm)ve read, The Tribal Knot combines genres to become something entirely new. Memoir, novel, genealogy, biography, survivor'e(tm)s testimony, study of generations of women, love story, catalogue of precious quotidian details, and portrait of Twentieth Century American life, this book takes us where we'e(tm)ve all been wanting to go but haven'e(tm)t until now seen how to get there. In this brilliant revitalizing of the oldest narrative we know, Rebecca McClanahan demonstrates how our lives depend on the story of our human family and why we can never get enough of it." 'e"David Huddle, Nothing Can Make Me Do This and Blacksnake at the Family Reunion, "Rebecca McClanahan's multi-generational memoir artfully weaves together more than a century of family documents, oral history, and historical records. With poetic elegance, McClanahan transforms ordinary life events into meaningful life stories. The Tribal Knot is not only an engaging read, but a literary model for those who yearn to write their own family story." -Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, author of You Can Write Your Family History, "To enter Rebecca McClanahan's memoir is to truly enter her life-her history, her geography, her tribe. The blending of photographs, letters, and diary entries into McClanahan's intelligent, lyrical and thoughtful prose makes this one of the fullest reading experiences I have had in a very long time." -Ann Hood, Comfort: A Journey through Grief and The Knitting Circle, "Rebecca McClanahan'e(tm)s multi-generational memoir artfully weaves together more than a century of family documents, oral history, and historical records. With poetic elegance, McClanahan transforms ordinary life events into meaningful life stories. The Tribal Knot is not only an engaging read, but a literary model for those who yearn to write their own family story." 'e"Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, author of You Can Write Your Family History, "To enter Rebecca McClanahan's memoir is to truly enter her life'e"her history, her geography, her tribe. The blending of photographs, letters, and diary entries into McClanahan's intelligent, lyrical and thoughtful prose makes this one of the fullest reading experiences I have had in a very long time." 'e"Ann Hood, Comfort: A Journey through Grief and The Knitting Circle
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Dewey Edition
23
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
977.0330922
Synopsis
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 strands of family members' hair into a single design, McClanahan braids her ancestors' stories into a single intimate narrative of her search to understand herself and her place in the family's complex past., 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 strands of family members' hair into a single design, McClanahan braids her ancestors' stories into a single intimate narrative of her search to understand herself and her place in the family's complex past., Like the practitioners of Victorian "hair artwho wove strands of family members' hair into a single design, McClanahan braids her ancestors' stories into a single intimate narrative of her search to understand herself and her place in the family's complex past.
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F355
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