Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myself
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
- Publish date: 12/01/2005
Williams's father was an "ordinary businessman" -- angry, demanding, addicted to the tension he created with the people he loved; a man who could read the Greek myths aloud to his son yet vowed never to apologize to anybody. His mother was a housewife, a woman with a great capacity for pleasure, who was stoical about the family's dire early poverty yet remained affected by it even when they became well-off. Together, these two formed what Williams calls the "conspiracy that made me who I am". His account of their life together and their deaths -- his father's with suicidal despair, and his mother's with calm resignation -- is a literary form of the reconciliation the family achieved at the end of his parents' lives. And as literary form it is novel, a series of brilliant short takes, a double helix of experience and recollection. Few contemporary writers have understood their origins so acutely, or so eloquently.
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