Next of Kin

A Memoir

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<b>In her long-awaited new memoir, the author of the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller and James Beard Award winner <i>Blood, Bones &amp; Butter</i> tells the “raw and darkly humorous” (<i>People</i>) story of her family's unexpected dissolution.</b><br><br><b>“Hamilton’s voice is as singular and rollicking as ever in <i>Next of Kin,</i> but it feels rare and special to have it applied to the kind of complicated family history that so many of us only come to confront in adulthood (if at all).”—<i>Vogue</i></b><br><br><i>“We were a family veined through with certain brutalities, rifts, and unresolved conflicts, as well as some remarkable violences and some decades-long silences. But together we had rituals, systems, congruent cohering events that made us who we were as one. I thought of the black and blue marks as if they were the desirable spores of mold found in noble cheeses.”</i><br><br>The youngest of five children, Gabrielle Hamilton took pride in her unsentimental, idiosyncratic family. She idolized her parents’ charisma and non-conformity. She worshipped her siblings’ mischievousness and flair. Hers was a family with no fondness for the humdrum.<br><br>Hamilton grew up to find enormous success, first as a chef and then as the author of award-winning, bestselling books. But her family ties frayed in ways both seismic and mundane until eventually she was estranged from them all. In the wake of one brother’s sudden death and another’s suicide, while raising young children of her own, Hamilton was compelled to examine the sprawling, complicated root system underlying her losses. She began investigating her family’s devout independence and individualism with a nearly forensic rigor, soon discovering a sobering warning in their long-held self-satisfaction. By the time she was called to care for her declining mother—the mother she’d seen only twice in thirty years—Hamilton had realized a certain freedom, one made possible only through a careful psychological autopsy

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780399590092

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

212 x 139 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House Publishing Group