cover image Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America

Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America

Donald Katz. HarperCollins Publishers, $15 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-06-099502-7

In this moving, perceptive social history, nominated for the NBCC award for general nonfiction, Katz follows the lives of the Gordon family from 1945, when they moved to suburban Long Island, to the year 1990, tracing the changes of four decades. (June)