Bequeath

Description

Bequeath
by Melora Wolff

ISBN: 9780807182772
Softcover, new
Publication Date: Sep 2024

Brief Description:
What should we do with the things we inherit? In ten intimate essays as
vivid as fiction and as varied as music, Melora Wolff’s Bequeath presents a
flawed, funny, impressionable narrator who tries to solve the mysteries of
bequeathed artifacts, family myths, and haunting mistakes—while also
figuring out how to grow up in dangerous, glamorous 1970s New York City.
With a wide range of voices—comic, lyric, collective, personal, joyful, and
deeply elegiac—Wolff pays homage to her musician father and family as she
roams a past rich with cultural touchstones and indelible characters, from
West Side Story and Lost in Space to Leonard Bernstein and Gloria Steinem.
Bequeath explores the legacies we impose and bestow on one another.