The Story of My Father (2007)
“I started three times during the next decade, and three times I stopped, halted by the sense that I was somehow off on the wrong tack; and then too by an idea for fiction that pressed in on me.The first of these interruptions was, naturally enough, a novel about the death of a parent. The parent in this case, though, was an elderly mother. A difficult woman, a prima donna of sorts, who comes to stay with her middle-aged son for some months on her way to a retirement community. A woman who bore ...certain similarities to my own mother—though she didn’t have an eighth of my mother’s charm. Still, it amused me to think it was perhaps to appease the spirit of my mother, competitive and narcissistic as she was, that I had conjured this book. It made perfect sense in terms of the family dynamics, didn’t it? I had to cope with her first. She came first. First, her book; then—only then—Dad’s.So I wrote The Distinguished Guest. And when I was done several years later, when it was off to the publisher, I turned back again to my father, to the memoir.MoreLess
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