num_pages: 240
description: The journalist and fashion writer offers a memoir of her very eccentric family, from her mother who wore three pairs of glasses, one on top of the other, and gardened in black underwear to her brother who lived in a tar-paper shack on the front lawn.
language: English
title: The Nearly Departed: Or, My Family & Other Foreigners
titlecomplete: The Nearly Departed: Or, My Family & Other Foreigners
genres: Nonfiction, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 41
publisher: Little, Brown and Company