Book description
Eric Hoffer Award Finalist Kin Types is a collection of lyric poetry, prose poetry, and flash prose that imaginatively retells the lives of private individuals from previous generations. Using family history research, the writer has reconstructed the stories of women and men from Michigan to Illinois to the Netherlands. Read…
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1 author picked Kin Types as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This was my first eye-opening introduction to family history imaginatively shared through lyric poetry, prose poetry, and flash prose.
Stories of women and men from Michigan to Illinois to the Netherlands, women dealing with infant mortality, vanity, housewife skills, divorce and other hidden stories, even a brave heroine saving a family's home.
From Joy's list on The best books of compelling poetic genealogy.
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