Kissing Cousins

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480439030

<DIV><b>Hortense Calisher&rsquo;s evocative memoir bristles with intelligence and youthful inquiry</b></div><DIV></div><DIV><i><BR>Kissing Cousins</i> recalls the author as a teenager: peppy, earnest, and a bit self-important. Hortense Calisher documents her family&rsquo;s surprising history as Southern Jews adrift in New York. Finding her new city and school boorish, the young Calisher takes solace in the enduring friendship she develops with Katie Pyle, a gregarious nurse turned &ldquo;kissing cousin&rdquo; fifteen years Calisher&rsquo;s senior. Katie, an unmarried woman, possesses her own secret, depicted here with a novelist&rsquo;s touch for the dramatic.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><i>Kissing Cousins</i> tackles matters of aging, life, and death with the sensitivity and eloquence readers have come to expect from Hortense Calisher.&#160;&#160;