Mann found boxes in the attic — letters, photographs, court records — and built a memoir out of what was in them. Her father the country doctor and eccentric. Her mother. Gee-Gee, the Black woman who raised her, and Mann’s reckoning with what that arrangement actually was. The Virginia farm. The controversy over the pictures of her own children, told from inside it. Her husband’s illness. A murderer who died on her land. She writes as well as she photographs, which almost never happens, and the family documents are reproduced throughout.
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