Intimate: An American Family Photo Album (The Tupelo Press Lineage)

Intimate: An American Family Photo Album (The Tupelo Press Lineage)

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Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Asian American Studies. Native American Studies. <i>Intimate</i> is a hybrid memoir and "photo album" that blends personal essay, historical documentary, and poetry to examine the tense relationship between self, society, and familial legacy in contemporary America. Typographically innovative, <i>Intimate</i> creates parallel streams, narrating the stories of Rekdal's Norwegian-American father and his mixed-race marriage, the photographer Edward S. Curtis, and Curtis's murdered Apsaroke guide, Alexander Upshaw. The result is panoramic, a completely original literary encounter with intimacy, identity, family relations, and race.