A Family Outing

By William Bailey Palmer

Every family has its secrets. And they'll do whatever it takes to take those secrets to the grave.Not this family.This family left behind an unbelievable trove of written, personal embarrassments -- diaries, love letters, photos -- you name it.This family was my family. So charming. So intelligent. So highly verbal. Yet, at the same time, so secretive that when you talked to any one of them, you never knew whether you were being leveled with, or not.When my mother married my father, The Truth, for all intents and purposes, went underground, never to emerge again until a few months after they had died.And then, when the Truth did come out, it came out in a rush, with so much written evidence that it has taken me the better part of five years to sort it all out.It was as if two generations of Baileys and Palmers had gotten together, gathered all the original documents they could lay their hands on, then stored these exhibitss in one place, for future examination and, perhaps, incrimination.Loves, fears, grudges, hatreds -- everything that had always been private, was now out in the open.My two grandfathers, my two grandmothers, my mother and my father had, seemingly,taken part in a grand collusion.After lifetimes of evasion, they were now, in effect, telling on themselves!"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615982212
• ISBN13: 9780615982212
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: William Bailey Palmer
• Length: 474 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"