The dog of memory
Subtitle: a family album of secrets and silences
By: Alvin Greenberg.
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Greenberg, Alvin.; Greenberg, Alvin -- Family.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "As a college student, Alvin Greenberg received a perplexing birthday card signed by aunts he couldn't recall. When he asked his mother about them the family secrets that had been trickling, unknown, beneath his existence begin to rise to the surface. The aunts, in fact, were the sisters of a biological mother he never knew, a mother who died giving birth to him.

His father, rather than follow Orthodox Jewish tradition and marry her eldest unmarried sister, had severed all ties with his in-laws and remarried another woman who raised Greenberg as her own son.".

"In The Dog Of Memory, Greenberg explores the many aspects of self-identity: familial, spiritual, social, and political. Examining his past through stories, music, literature, and a photo album full of empty slots, Greenberg attempts to navigate the intricacies of life that are the only answers we have to the question "Who am I?""--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: What streams through us; title: The music of silence; title: Premature burial; title: Herb : a memoir; title: The dog of memory; title: Remember the Alamo; title: Killer; title: The ever-present; title: Here and there; title: Silencings; title: Shirts and skins; title: Slow learners; title: Pause a while; title: Lost and found; title: Voices : a meditation.