New Yorker Reviews Four Books: The Vanishing Family, The Jews of Italy, I Made You Up Inside My Head, Days & Chances
The Newer's Briefly Noted highlights four notable books: Robert Kolker's The Vanishing Family (Doubleday) chronicles the lives of nine siblings grappling with frontotemporal dementia, particularly focusing on sisters Sue and Christy as they navigate caregiving. Anna Foa's The Jews of Italy, translated by Gregory Conti (Princeton), provides a two-millennia overview of the Catholic Church's influence on Italian Jewish history, encompassing both protection and ghettoization. Marta Pérez-Carbonell's debut novel, I Made You Up Inside My Head, translated by Rosalind Harvey (Riverhead), tells the story of Alicia, who contemplates a stranger's narrative alongside her own troubled past. Lastly, Joanna Klink's poetry collection Days & Chances (Penguin) delves into the interplay between internal experiences and external realities, rich with memory and yearning.
Key facts
- The Vanishing Family by Robert Kolker is published by Doubleday.
- Frontotemporal dementia often begins in midlife, unlike Alzheimer's.
- Nine adult siblings reckon with the disease; their mother showed signs in her late forties.
- Sue cares for her sister Christy from her early thirties for decades.
- The Jews of Italy by Anna Foa, translated by Gregory Conti, is published by Princeton.
- The book spans two millennia and argues that without Jews, Italy would not be Italy.
- I Made You Up Inside My Head by Marta Pérez-Carbonell, translated by Rosalind Harvey, is published by Riverhead.
- Days & Chances by Joanna Klink is published by Penguin.
Entities
Artists
- Robert Kolker
- Anna Foa
- Gregory Conti
- Marta Pérez-Carbonell
- Rosalind Harvey
- Joanna Klink
- Sue
- Christy
- Alicia
Institutions
- Doubleday
- Princeton University Press
- Riverhead Books
- Penguin
- The New Yorker
- Catholic Church
Locations
- Italy
- London
- United Kingdom
- Edinburgh