Between Them : Remembering My Parents (CD-Audio)

from CarrieWuj

How well do we really know our parents? That's the question this book attempts to answer. Often we know about them, but don't know their inner life: motivations, intentions, dreams, goals. Richard Ford explains his memoir Between Them as a reminder “….that I was one person raised by two very diff...

from froxgirl

This is a gentle journey through Richard Ford's life with his parents and their imagined life without him. Ford was born 15 years after his parents were married, after they had become accustomed to their life together on the road (Dad Parker was a traveling salesman, and mom Edna accompanied him ...

from RandyMetcalfe

Richard Ford offers a thoughtful, kind, measured account of his parents, a memoir both reflecting and opaque. The first half of the book is about his father, who died when Richard was only sixteen. Since much of his father's life preceded his own, the greater part of this concentrates on that, hi...

from tandah

A simple story about simple folks, heartfelt and beautifully written. I wish I could write this for my parents.

from heggiep

As with any Ford book, beautifully written, thoughtful and poignant.