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The Mitford Snowmen

by Jan Karon · 2002

"With The Gutenberg Elegies, a widely acclaimed New York Times Notable Book, Sven Birkerts won attention as a graceful and thoughtful essayist, an eloquent advocate of literature in an age of electronic media. Now he shows what only literature can do, in a memoir that probes what it means to be an American with roots in a distant culture.". "As a boy growing up in Detroit, Birkerts always felt deeply divided between the claims of his family's Latvian heritage and the seductions of his adopted culture. His struggle to find his own path thrust him up against the myths of his origins - the turbu

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