Don't Go Back to Sleep: a memoir - Softcover

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE: This is a 2020 reprint of the 2009 First Edition. From the author's Foreword: "Last year I found a photograph of my great-grandmother as a young woman. I had never seen her before. Staring at her face, I tried to find some familial likeness, but mostly, I wondered who she was and what she believed in. I knew then that I was writing this memoir for my grandchildren and for the generations that will come after them. I want to leave them a legacy, the story of an ancestor whose blood is mingled with theirs. There is a saying in Hawaii that I love: 'We are the descendants of our ancestors, and the ancestors of our descendants.' Sharing my heart with the past and future generations of my family is an honor. God Bless them all." “We think we’ve seen the inner workings of rich WASP families during the middle of the 20th century—O’Hara and Cheever come to mind—but we haven’t quite seen it all. In Lisa Barstow’s strangely affecting memoir, we get the details as she actually lived that life and then fought against it. Through tragedy and triumph, Ms. Barstow learns a new way of seeing her family and herself—all the while sharing her insights on the page.” —Anita Shreve, best-selling author of The Weight of Water

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