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Running in the Family

by Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje's story of his family is a journey through memory and imagination to reconstruct the life his parents and grandparents once led. Recollected experience and legendary family scandals kaleidoscope to give a portrait of a lost time and place, with eccentric characters and captivating scenes set against a colonial empire in decline. -- P. [4] of Cover.