Objects of Our Affection : Uncovering My Family's Past, One Chair, Pistol, and Pickle Fork at a Time

from ParadisePorch

(Nonfiction, Memoir) Blurb: "About the history of certain carefully collected heirlooms and why we hold on to the things we keep and how we let go of the ones we lose." Lisa Tracy found herself, along with her sister Jeanne, responsible for cleaning out her deceased parents' home, jammed full of ...

from satyridae

This was a strange and disconcerting book. Tracy comes from an old American military family, and she and her sister find themselves the recipients of many lifetimes' worth of furniture after their mother dies. This book is the story of what they do with the furniture, who they are in the context ...

from countrylife

Part family biography, part memoir, part, as the cover says, cultural anthropology . . . a thoughtful meditation on the emotional resonance of objects. Author Lisa Tracy and her sister have decisions to make about the inherited furniture and belongings of generations of their military family. Whe...

from kaulsu

At first, I must admit, I wasn't too taken by this book. Even now, I think it could have done with tighter editing to trim the seemingly repetitiveness. But Tracy was packing in a lot of history. It isn't her fault that everyone in her family seems to have been blessed with the same names. Mostly...