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More than forty years after leaving her native New Orleans as a young woman, Leta Weiss Marks awakened to the realization that her family history there was almost beyond the horizon of living memory. Rescuing it, for herself and posterity, became her mission and brought her home again. In a compelling, elegant blend of fact and fiction, Marks weaves a tapestry of family members and events, drawing mainly upon interviews with her nonagenarian mother and aunt.
Letters, archival research, and Marks's own recollections and imagination also contribute to the composition, which she calls "a song of myself and my family.".
Stories and memories of three generations of the Dreyfous branch of the family tree complete Marks's portrait.
She makes vivid not only the personalities of her kin but also the times in which they lived, conjuring the New Orleans of her great-grandfather, grandparents, parents, and own childhood - segregation, the alternate inclusion and exclusion of the Jewish community, the fervid politics of the Long era - and juxtaposing those scenes with her experiences as an adult returning to visit her family in a greatly changed city.
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Time's tapestry: four generations of a New Orleans family
1997, Louisiana State University Press
in English
080712205X 9780807122051
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-175).
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