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The Mighty Franks: A Memoir
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The Mighty Franks: A Memoir

Written by Michael Frank

Narrated by Michael Frank

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A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR

A story at once extremely strange and entirely familiar – about families, innocence, art and love. This hugely enjoyable, totally unforgettable memoir is a classic in the making.

‘My aunt called our two families the Mighty Franks. But, she said, you and I, Lovey, are a thing apart. The two of us have pulled our wagons up to a secret campsite. We know how lucky we are. We’re the most fortunate people in the world to have found each other, isn’t it so?’

Michael Frank’s upbringing was unusual to say the least. His aunt was his father’s sister and his uncle his mother’s brother. The two couples lived blocks apart in the hills of LA, with both grandmothers in an apartment together nearby.

Most unusual of all was his aunt, ‘Hankie’: a beauty with violet eyelids and leaves fastened in her hair, a woman who thought that conformity was death, a Hollywood screenwriter spinning seductive fantasies. With no children of her own, Hankie took a particular shine to Michael, taking him on Antiquing excursions, telling him about ‘the very last drop of her innermost self’, holding him in her orbit in unpredictable ways. This love complicated the delicate balance of the wider family and changed Michael’s life forever.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 15, 2017
ISBN9780008215231
Author

Michael Frank

Michael Frank's short fiction and essays have appeared in the Yale Review, Salmagundi, Glimmer Train, the New York Times Magazine, and Tablet, among other publications, and they have been anthologized in Mother Knows: 24 Tales of Motherhood and Not For Bread Alone: Writers on Food, Wine, and the Art of Eating. His fiction has been presented at Symphony Space’s “Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story,” and his travel writing has been collected in Italy: The Best Travel Writing from the New York Times. As a Los Angeles Times book critic for nearly 10 years, Frank covered literary fiction and biography, Jewish and Italian history, gastronomy and art history. He has written frequently for the New York Times on architecture and culture.

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