Pub Date: February 1, 2005
Dewey: B
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.85" H x 8.36" L x 6.54" W ( 0.67 lbs) 352 pages
BISAC Categories:
Biography and Autobiography | Women | Family and Relationships | Siblings | Death Grief Bereavement | Memoirs | Literary Figures
Description: In one of the most highly acclaimed debuts of recent years, this chronicle of a family haunted by the memory of a lost child provides insight into the emotional life of the American family, the power of sibling love and loyalty, and the excruciating joy of first forbidden love.
Brief description: Alison Smith has been a resident at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney's and various anthologies. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Please visit www.namealltheanimals.com.
Review Quotes: "Alison Smith has written a beautiful, completely unsentimental memoir so full of love and sorrow and the stuff of everyday that you live in it as much as read it." -- Anna Quindlen