Overview

A daughter's memoir deconstructing identity through art and family. This fusion of memoir and imagination travels through past and present, blending personal history with artistic influences. Nina Barragan explores her life as the daughter of a printmaker and the wife of a painter, revealing the ties between life and writing. The narrative weaves through Argentina, Iowa, and Europe, examining cultural identity and the impact of historical events on a family. Printmaker's Daughter, Painter's Wife is for readers interested in: Family dynamics and artistic legacies Cultural history and personal identity The intersection of art, memory, and life

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Nina Barragan is not just a printmaker's daughter and a painter's wife, and her exquisite, intimate book is no mere memoir. Underneath the placidly ironic title, she explores the ways we sketch our illusions in life and fiction, as she takes her reader on a luminously insightful and captivating journey of a woman's self-scrutiny. Barragan is a quietly forceful writer, and her arresting tale teases strands of untamed memories into stories of displacement, erasure, duality, authenticity and the desire for transformation. This is the true art of writing: on the surface and deep underneath. --Ksenija Bilbija, Professor, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Nina Barragan, pen name of Roco Lasansky Weinstein, was born in Cordoba, Argentina, raised in Iowa City, Iowa, and received a BA in English from the University of Iowa. Married to artist Alan Weinstein and mother of four grown children, home is Iowa City and Teeswater, Ontario. Since 1967 her work has appeared in quarterlies, journals and anthologies. She has published three books of fiction.

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