cover image The Four of Us: A Family Memoir

The Four of Us: A Family Memoir

Elizabeth Swados. Plume Books, $10 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-452-26960-6

Avant-garde composer Swados describes her parents' unpredictable emotional states and her brother's schizophrenia; while she intends her memoirs as ``reverberations put into words,'' on the whole they ring flat. (Apr.)