Time's Tapestry: Four Generations of a New Orleans Family

by Leta Weiss Marks

Book Overview

More than forty years afterleaving her native New Orleans as a young woman, Leta Weiss Marks awakened to the realization that her family history there was almost beyond the horizon of living memory. Rescuing it, for herself and posterity, became her mission and brought her home again. In a compelling, elegant blend of fact and fiction, Marks weaves a tapestry of family members and events, drawing mainly upon interviews with her nonagenarian mother...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080712205X
• ISBN13: 9780807122051
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"