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Talk to me : lessons from a family forged by history
Audience Adults
Published [2025] by Pantheon Books, New York
ISBN 9780593317396
Bib Id 1480167
Edition First edition.
Description pages cm
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cam a22 8i 4500
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2024021561
ISBN
9780593317396 (hardcover) $29.00
0593317394
Call #
929.2 Fignole B
Title
Talk to me : lessons from a family forged by history
Varying Form of Title
Lessons from a family forged by history
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
[2025] by Pantheon Books, New York :
Description
pages cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary
"Rich Benjamin's mother, Danielle Fignolé, grew up the eldest in a large family living a comfortable life in Port-au-Prince. Her mother was a schoolteacher, her father a populist hero--a labor leader and politician. The first true champion of the black masses, he eventually became the country's president in 1957. But two weeks after his inauguration, that life was shattered. Soldiers took Danielle's parents at gunpoint and put them on a plane to New York, a coup hatched by the Eisenhower administration. Danielle and her siblings were kidnapped, and ultimately smuggled out of the country. Growing up, Rich knew little of this. No one in his family spoke of it. He didn't know why his mother struggled with emotional connection, why she was so erratic, so quick to anger. And she, in turn, knew so little about him, about the emotional pain he moved through as a child, the physical agony from his blood disease, while coming to terms with his sexuality at the dawn of the AIDS crisis. For all that they could talk about--books, learning, world events--the deepest parts of themselves remained a mystery to one another, a silence that, the older Rich got, the less he could bear. It would take Rich years to piece together the turmoil that carried forward from his grandfather, to his mother, to him, and then to bring that story to light. In Talk to Me, he doesn't just paint the portrait of his family, but a bold, pugnacious portrait of America--of the human cost of the country's hostilities abroad, the experience of migrants on these shores, and how the indelible ties of family endure through triumph and loss, from generation to generation"--
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