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African American authors 20th century Biography Andersen, Lisbeth Zornig 1968- Andersen, Lisbeth Zornig 1968- Family Authors, American 20th century Family relationships Economists Denmark Biography Fathers and sons United States Pardlo, Gregory Pardlo, Gregory Family Political activists Denmark BiographyAndersen, Lisbeth Zornig
Summary: Born to a violently dysfunctional home in working-class Denmark, Lisbeth Zornig Andersen and her three older brothers were bounced between foster care and state-run institutions, then back again to their chemically dependent mother and sadistic stepfather. For Lisbeth, it was a childhood without perimeters. It was blighted by poverty, sexual abuse, neglect, betrayal, and further victimization...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDERSEN, LISBETH ZORNG ANDPardlo, Gregory
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, his first work of prose: a deeply felt memoir of a family's bonds and a meditation on race, addiction, fatherhood, ambition, and American culture The Pardlos were an average, middle-class African American family living in a New Jersey Levittown: charismatic Gregory Sr., an air traffic controller, his wife, and their two sons, bookish Greg Jr. and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018