Somehow Form a Family
Stories That Are Mostly True

It's funny how much more likely I am to pick up a memoir by an author I've never read before than a novel. I came across this book while setting up my church's annual rummage sale (I should really start a shelf listing the books I've met this way) and my interest was piqued by the reference to The B......more

Memoir meets vignettes of story. Earley shares his childhood through early marriage years in these short stories that flow a stream of thought and time. Some were quite entertaining and others were dull or didn’t appeal to me. His sharing of the shows he watched on tv growing up were familiar and I......more

Novelist and memoirist, Tony Earley, lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and teaches writing at Vanderbilt University. So he knows a thing or two about the power of words. His writing is true and deceptively simple in his 172-page collection of personal essays entitled Somehow Form a Family (2001). Earley......more