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Author Ellen Douglas (pen name of Josephine Ayres Haxton) Country United States Language English Publication date 1962 Media type Print Followed by Black Cloud, White CloudA Family's Affairs. is a loosely biographical account of the author's maternal grandmother and her extended family. It was published in 1962 in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Company. Bold textSynopsisDouglas begins this story in 1917 when Kate Anderson was a 54 year old widow with three daughters and a son. Kate's long life, marriage, widowhood, and the lives and marriages of her children and the small southern town of Homochitto are presented through the eyes of Anna, Kate's grandaughter. Life among the immediate and extended families is full of disappointments, sorrows, personality clashes, and poverty as well as hope , love, and bravely borne obligations. The reader follows Kate from her simultaneous engagement to three men at 22 and her charming, energetic, lively personality to her old age, dementia and the intolerable behavior that accompanies it, and death. Kate's daughters are as interesting as Kate, if less engaging. Charlotte Married a strong, intelligent man and her marriage went well; Anna's marriage to a divorced man who had no manners and said "I seen" was short-lived; Sarah D. spent her life suppo9rting her husband; and Kate's son Will was mired in alcoholism. Douglas's family saga affirms the value of family life, the courage to survive crises, and the bond that keeps families together through misfortune, old age, and death as well as through love, marriage, and children. Bold textReceptionA Family's Affairs received warm reviews from critics. It won the Houghton Mifflin-Esquire Fellowship Award, and Houghton Mifflin recognized Douglas as a new voice from her region. Orville Prescott of The New York Times wrote, "In a time when too many talented novelists write cheap or meretricious or shrilly pretentious books it is a pleasure to find as able, astute, decent and enjoyable a novel as this." (NYT, June 18, 1962) ReferencesA Family's Affairs |
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