{"product_id":"family-9780312420598","title":"Family","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith wit and an unerring eye for detail  acclaimed author Ian Frazier takes readers on a journey through his familys story  his nations history  and himself  Using letters and other family documents  Frazier reconstructs two hundred years of middle-class life  visiting small towns his ancestors lived in  reading books they read  and discovering the larger forces of history that affected them. He observes some of them during the British raid on Danbury  Connecticut  in the Revolutionary War; he follows others west as they pioneer in the wilderness of Ohio and Indiana; he visits the battlefields where they fought the Civil War. Frazier interviews old-timers  uncles  aunts  cousins  maids  and a beer-store owner who knew his dad. He pursues the family saga in aspect from trivial to grand  hoping for \"a meaning that would defeat death.\"  Family is a poetic epic of facts  a chronicle of Protestant cultures rise and fall  a memorial  and a revised view of American history as romantic as it is cold-eyed.  Mr. Frazier  in this remarkable history of an unremarkable family  plays both roles  the gossip and the pedant  balances skillfully  then adds his own insights as a loyal family member. David Willis McCullough  The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647568076853,"sku":"ByrdShop_0312420595","price":24.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780312420598.jpg?v=1781693253","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/family-9780312420598","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}