Only Child by Deborah Siegel

Only Child by Deborah Siegel

What is it really like to be an only child?
In this insightful and entertaining collection, writers including Judith Thurman, Kathryn Harrison, John Hodgman, and Peter Ho Davies reflect on a lifetime of being an only. They describe what it's like to be an only child of divorce, an only because of the death of a sibling, an only who reveled in it, or an only who didn't. As adults searching for partners, they are faced with the unique challenge of trying to turn their family units of three into units of four, and as they watch their parents age, they come face-to-face with the onus of being their families' sole historians.
Whether you're an only child, the partner or spouse of an only, a parent pondering whether to stop at one, or a curious sibling, Only Child offers a look behind the scenes and into the hearts of twenty-one smart and sensitive writers as they reveal the truth about growing up-and being a grown-up-solo.

For ten years, Daphne Uviller was the supervisor of her family's building in the West Village. She has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsday, New York, Allure, and Self, and was a former Books/Poetry editor for Time Out New York. She is a third-generation Greenwich Villager who currently lives with her husband and two children in the flat she grew up in.

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ISBN 13	9780307238061
ISBN 10	0307238067
Title	Only Child
Author	Deborah Siegel
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Harmony
Year published	2006-12-26
Number of pages	256
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