A Family Place
A Family Place : A Hudson Valley Farm, Three Centuries, Five Wars, One Family Leila Philip,
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN: 0142001457
Edition: Paperback; 2002-08-27
Summary:
In this luminous memoir, award-winning author Leila Philip tells the
story of her ancestral Hudson River home, Talavera, the mystery of
her attachment to it, and her search to come to terms with the truth
about her family's fascinating three-century history there. After her
father's death in 1992, Philip and her family struggled to find the
means to keep Talavera intact. This uphill battle led her to examine
the forces that compel a family to sacrifice almost everything to
hold on to a piece of land. In a historical quest both surprising and
engaging, Philip addresses the tensions between memory and recorded
fact and invites readers to take a new look at their own sense of
home.
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