LISA TRACY
OBJECTS OF OUR AFFECTION
LISA TRACY says that it was while she was the Home and Design Editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer that she started thinking about design, furniture, and the nature and fate of the objects we accumulate.
That interest eventually led to her most recent book, OBJECTS OF OUR AFFECTION (Random House/Bantam 2010). Tracy notes: “Almost without exception, our families came from somewhere else. They came across oceans and through hardships to find a better life. |
“But now we also move – the average American family can move 11 times in a lifetime. We move for jobs, schools, our children, our parents. And every time we move, we have to pack. We take stuff to GoodWill. We give things away and leave them behind. We wonder what will become of our ‘material selves’ when we’re gone.”
OBJECTS OF OUR AFFECTION digs into all those questions, and more. |
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