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DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of\n\nFreeman's: Family: The Best New Writing on 
 Family\n\npublished by Grove Press\n\nThe second issue of a new anthology 
 from renowned literary critic John Freeman, featuring 
 never-before-published stories, essays, and poetry by Claire Messud, 
 Aminatta Forna, Marlon James, Alexander Chee, Aleksandar Hemon, Tracy K. 
 Smith, and more.\n\nFreeman's: Family is what the series reviewers are 
 calling "bold" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) and "refreshing" (Chicago 
 Literati). Following a debut issue on the theme of “Arrival,” Freeman 
 circles a new topic whose definition is constantly challenged by the best 
 of our writers: family.\n\nIn an essay called "Crossroads," Aminatta Forna 
 muses on the legacy of slavery as she settles her family in Washington, DC, 
 where she is constantly accused of cutting in line whenever she stands next 
 to her white husband. Families are hardly stable entities, so many writers 
 discover. Award-winning novelist Claire Vaye Watkins delivers a stunning 
 portrait of a woman in the throes of postpartum depression. Booker Prize 
 winner Marlon James takes the focus off absent fathers to write about his 
 mother, who calls to sing him happy birthday every year. Even in the 
 darkest moments, humor abounds. In Claire Messud's home there are two 
 four-legged tyrants; Sandra Cisneros writes about her extended family of 
 past lovers; and Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his uncle's desperate 
 attempt to remain a communist despite decades in the Soviet gulag.\n\nWith 
 outstanding, never-before-published pieces of fiction, nonfiction, and 
 poetry from literary heavyweights and up-and-coming writers alike, 
 Freeman's: Family collects the most amusing, heartbreaking, and probing 
 stories about family life emerging today.\n \n \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790930.php
SUMMARY:John Freeman
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\n261 Columbus Ave\nSan Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790930.php
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