A House with No Roof

Name: A House with No Roof
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ISBN: 9781582437545

After My Father's Assassination, A Memoir

Rebecca Wilson, Anne Lamott

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Counterpoint
20 September 2011

Memoirs

In 1966, Rebecca Wilson's father, a Union Leader and civil rights activist, was assassinated on the street in San Francisco. Rebecca-known throughout as ""Becky""-was three years old. A House with No Roof is Wilson's gripping memoir of how the murder of her father propelled her family into a life-long search for solace and understanding.

Following her father's death, Becky's mother, Barbara, desperate for closure and peace, uproots the family and moves to Bolinas, California. In this small, coastal town of hippies, artists, and ""burnouts,"" the family continues to unravel. To cope, Barbara turns to art and hangs a banner that loudly declares, ""Wilsons are Bold."" But she still succumbs to her grief, neglecting her children in her wake.

Becky's brother turns to drugs while her beautiful sister chooses a life on the road and becomes pregnant. As Becky fumbles and hurtles toward adulthood herself, she comes to learn the full truth of her father's death-a truth that threatens to steal her sanity and break her spirit.

Told with humor and candor-and with love and family devotion at its heart-A House with No Roof is a brave account of one daughter's struggle to survive.

By: Rebecca Wilson, Anne Lamott
Imprint: Counterpoint
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 312g
ISBN: 9781582437545
ISBN 10: 1582437548
Pages: 270
Publication Date: 20 September 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rebecca Wilson was born in San Francisco and raised in Bolinas, California. She graduated from Scripps Women's College Phi Beta Kappa and traveled to Scotland on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. During her time in Scotland she published her first book, Sleeping with Monsters- Conversations with Scottish and Irish Female Poets. She lives in Fairfax, California.