Next of kin : a memoir / Gabrielle Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, Gabrielle, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooks--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Cooks.

Restaurateurs--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Restaurateurs.

Families--United States.

Families.

Hamilton, Gabrielle.

Hamilton, Gabrielle--Family.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 270 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Random House, [2025]

Summary:

"The youngest of five children, Gabrielle Hamilton took pride in her unsentimental, idiosyncratic family. She idolized her parents' charisma and non-conformity. She worshipped her siblings' mischievousness and flair. Hers was a family with no fondness for the humdrum. Hamilton grew up to find enormous success, first as a chef and then as the author of award-winning, bestselling books. But her family ties frayed in ways both seismic and mundane until eventually she was estranged from them all. In the wake of one brother's sudden death and another's suicide, while raising young children of her own, Hamilton was compelled to examine the sprawling, complicated root system underlying her losses. She began investigating her family's devout independence and individualism with a nearly forensic rigor, soon discovering a sobering warning in their long-held self-satisfaction. By the time she was called to care for her declining mother-the mother she'd seen only twice in thirty years-Hamilton had realized a certain freedom, one made possible only through a careful psychological autopsy of her family. Hamilton's gift for pungent dialogue, propulsive storytelling, intense honesty, and raucous humor made her first book a classic of modern memoir. In Next of Kin, she offers a keen and compassionate portrait of the people she grew up with and the prevailing but soon-to-falter ethos of the era that produced them. A personal account of one family's disintegration, Next of Kin is also a universal story of the emotional clarity that comes from scrutinizing our family mythologies and seeing through to the other side"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Fact-checker

The end of American literature

Daddy-O quits smoking

Bean-counters

Freeze tag

Roadkill

Gilgamesh

No

Jiminy crickets

The car

Mad money

Silver lining

It runs in the family

Housekeeping

Professionals deliver

The burning ship

The fruit describes the tree

Mistakes were made

Courage

Who am I to say?

The marquis of debris

Next of kin

Complicated

A blessing

Houdini

A comedy . Or errors.

Other Format:

Online version Hamilton, Gabrielle Next of kin

ISBN:

9780399590092

0399590099

OCLC:

1482059615

Publisher Number:

90102765984