Good Family
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: June 27, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780060737955
Subjects: Popular American Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - General; General; Fiction / General; Conflict of generations; Inheritance and succession; Mothers and daughters
First sentence: In the years before our grandmother died, when my sister and I wore matching dresses, and the grown-ups, unburdened by conscience, drank gin and smoked; those years before planes made a mockery of distance, and physics a mockery of time; in the years before I knew what it was like to be regarded with hard, needy want, when my family still had its goodness, and I my innocence; in those years before Negroes were blacks, and soldiers went AWOL, and women were given their constrained, abridged liberties, we traveled to Michigan by train.