num_pages: 320
description: It Runs in the Family is a memoir of faith and willful ignorance truths and secrets rural and urban labor and fire: fire as both knowledge and destructive force.Richard Manning was raised on a piece of farmland in Michigan in a working- class family of Christian fundamentalists. Manning's father was a jack of many trades: farmer carpenter builder power lineman factory worker small businessman. His mother concealed her own troubled childhood beneath a religious faith that explained away uncertainty illness and tragedy.Manning grew up learning how to work and what to believe---but came to understand his family's seemingly-normal facade as a mask for troubling secrets. It Runs in the Family is the story of Manning's journey away from his family one that ranges from their Michigan farm to the fire-ravaged wilderness of Montana and finally to a remote village in Panama where he comes to pursue a past he had vowed to leave behind. Linking his own life with the larger story of his family the land they inhabited and the right-wing fundamentalist politics gaining ground in America Richard Manning offers a singular memoir.
language: None
title: It Runs in the Family: A Memoir
publisher: St. Martin's Press