“I go between my parents as I would two worlds.”
– Eliza Anderson, Two Houses, A Memoir of Art and Divorce
Mimi Weisbord. Two Houses. 1975. Oil on linen. 24 x 30 in. Collection of Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. ©2023 Estate of Mimi Weisbord
Praise for the manuscript, Two Houses, A Memoir of Art and Divorce
“I couldn’t put it down. I started reading when I got it and until late that night […]
you’re an irresistible writer.”
– Fran McCullough, the first recipient of the PEN/Roger Klein Award for Editing
and Sylvia Plath’s editor at Harper
“This memoir reads at times like a true crime novel, at times like an art history lesson, at times like a feminist manifesto. The writing is beautiful […] driven by humor, passion, anger, and self-doubt […] you dig to know your parents despite the risks to yourself and your very foundation […] a condemnation that becomes a call to forgiveness. Universally compelling. I loved it.”
– Emily Rinkema, Pushcart-nominated short fiction writer, winner of the 2024 Lascaux Prize and 2024 Cambridge Prize for Flash Fiction
“This is the book you were always meant to write.”
– Joan Larkin, recipient of Lambda Literary Awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy of Poets
Praise for the blog, Two Houses. Two Painters. Two Parents. (a separate body of work)
“Two Houses is so powerful and wrenching! What a story you’re telling.”
– Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, recipient of Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships
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Jealousy
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