American Genius: A Comedy

Synopsis

A Former Historian Spends Time In A Residential Home, Mental Institute, Artist's Colony, Or Sanitarium, Spinning Tales Of Her Life And Ruminating On Her Many And Varied Preoccupations: Chair Design, Textiles, Pet Deaths, Family Trauma, A Lost Brother, The Manson Family, The Zulu Alphabet, Loneliness, Memory, Skin--and What 'sensitivity' Means In Our Culture And Society. A New Edition Of A Contemporary Classic, With An Introduction By Novelist Lucy Ives--