My Mother in History: Selected Prose

A lifetime of inquiry, memory, and cultural reckoning-collected in one powerful volume. My Mother in History brings together twelve acclaimed essays and works of creative nonfiction from Lucas Carpenter, a distinguished scholar and writer whose career spans more than four decades. Blending personal memoir, literary criticism, philosophy, art analysis, and social commentary, this collection explores how individual lives intersect with history, ideology, art, and truth. At the heart of the bo...