Making Toast: A Family Story

Making Toast: A Family Story

<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">“A painfully beautiful memoir….Written with such restraint as to be both heartbreaking and instructive.” <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">—E. L. Doctorow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">A revered, many times honored (George Polk, Peabody, and Emmy Award winner, to name but a few) journalist, novelist, and playwright, </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Roger Rosenblatt shares the unforgettable story of the tragedy that changed his life and his family. A book that grew out of his popular December 2008 essay in <em>The New Yorker, Making Toast </em>is a moving account of unexpected loss and recovery in the powerful tradition of <em>About Alice </em>and<em> The Year of Magical Thinking</em>. Writer Ann Beattie offers high praise to the acclaimed author of <em>Lapham Rising</em> and <em>Beet</em> for a memoir that is, “written so forthrightly, but so delicately, that you feel you’re a part of this family.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>