Dust

By Summer Brenner

Book Overview

In this Boomer memoir, Driving Miss Daisy meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. With lilting eloquence, Summer Brenner captures the tumultuous fifties and sixties of a genteel Jewish family in Atlanta, with the South's oppressive segregation and anti-Semitism. The family drama is fraught: the brother is a schizophrenic, the mother a Gucci-clad Medusa, and the father a suicide. After extensive travels, Brenner frees herself in the Bay Area to become "more beatnik than debutante." Framed by historic events, this is the moving coming-of-age story of a generation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1959556460
• ISBN13: 9781959556466
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"