The Three of Us: A Family Story

This is the moving story of three people: acclaimed writer Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas—a poet and alcoholic with an addiction to barbiturates; and her mother, Rosalie—a flirtatious painter with no boundaries.

“Striking.... Colored by passion and memory.... [Blackburn] artfully smudges the line between memoir and reportage.” —Francine Prose, Harper's

After Julia's parents divorced, her mother took in male lodgers with the hope they would become her lovers. When one of the lodgers bega...