Making Toast: A Family Story [Paperback]

“A painfully beautiful memoir….Written with such restraint as to be both heartbreaking and instructive.”

—E. L. Doctorow

A revered, many times honored (George Polk, Peabody, and Emmy Award winner, to name but a few) journalist, novelist, and playwright,Roger Rosenblatt shares the unforgettable story of the tragedy that changed his life and his family. A book that grew out of his popular December 2008 essay inThe New Yorker, Making Toastis a moving account of unexpected loss and recovery in the powerful tradition ofAbout AliceandThe Year of Magical Thinking. Writer Ann Beattie offers high praise to the acclaimed author ofLapham RisingandBeetfor a memoir that is, “written so forthrightly, but so delicately, that you feel you’re a part of this family.”

FromOmagazine to theNew York Times, from authors such as E. L. Doctorow to Ann Beattie, critics and writers across the country have hailed Roger Rosenblatt'sMaking Toastas an evocative, moving testament to the enduring power of a parent's love and the bonds ol£Í