Read on Twitter
#twitterstorians, give me your reading recommendations. I've realised that a favourite type of book is '(family) history which spends about half of its pages on the journey of figuring out and reflecting on what it means to tell those stories'.
Any top tips in that category?
Any top tips in that category?
The Lost by @DAMendelsohnNYC is in that genre: as moving in its passages about piecing together the family story as it is harrowing in describing the realities of the holocaust.
https://www.danielmendelsohn.com/books/the-lost-reviews
https://www.danielmendelsohn.com/books/the-lost-reviews
And @SvenjaODonnell's Inge's War: important story of her grandmother, but also important about what uncovering family histories does, with the individuals involved and their bonds. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1118767/inge-s-war/9781529105452.html
And both East West Street ( https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227917/east-west-street-by-philippe-sands/) and The Rat Line ( https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566224/the-ratline-by-philippe-sands/) by @philippesands are just so powerful in their reflectiveness as well as telling of important stories.
In Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother the two are inseparable. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374531157
Also, if someone could please read the audiobook of Hazel Carby's Imperial Intimacies, that'd be *great* for my listen-while-walking purposes.
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3066-imperial-intimacies
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3066-imperial-intimacies
Adding that to this thread here as well :) https://twitter.com/archive_lore/status/1380450830873149440?s=20
