Life Among The Savages
Back Cover Text:author of RAISING DEMONS
AMERICA'S CELEBRATED MASTER OF TERROR TURNS TO A DIFFERENT KIND OF FRIGHT: RAISING CHILDREN.
In her quietly terrifying fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. But she also possessed a lighter side, one which is delightfully exposed in this witty and warm memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont. Jackson takes on children who won't behave, furnaces that break down, a pugnacious corner bully, and a husband who remains lovingly oblivious to the thousands of things mothers and wives accomplish every day. With a novelist's gift for character, an unfailing maternal instinct, and her incisive humor, Jackson turns ordinary family experiences into brilliant adventures
"AS WARM AS IT IS HILARIOUS AND BELIEVABLE. NEVER HAS THE STATE OF DOMESTIC CHAOS BEEN SO PERFECTLY ILLUMINATED." - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"MANY WHO PROFESS AN ADMIRATION FOR SHIRLEY JACKSON, OFTEN DESCRIBED AS A 'WRITERS'S WRITER' DO NOT USUALLY INCLUDE HER THINLY VEILED MEMOIRS OF MOTHERHOOD, BUT IT IS PRECISELY THESE HILARIOUSLY EVISCERATING, KEENLY OBSERVED, AND GENEROUS BOOKS THAT I AND MANY OTHER WRITERS WHO HAPPEN TO BE MOTHERS, ADORE." - AYELET WALDMAN