{"product_id":"caring-for-red-mindy-fried-9780826521156","title":"Caring for Red: A Daughter's Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eEric Hoffer Book Award Finalist, 2018\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaring for Red\u003c\/i\u003e is Mindy Fried's moving and colorful account of caring for her ninety-seven-year-old father, Manny--an actor, writer, and labor organizer--in the final year of his life. This memoir chronicles the actions of two sisters as they discover concentric circles of support for their father and attempt to provide him with an experience of \"engaged aging\" in an assisted living facility. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe story is also that of a daughter of a powerful and outspoken man who took risks throughout his life and whose political beliefs had an enduring impact on his family. (After Manny was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he was blacklisted and his family was shunned.) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs an actor, Manny was affiliated with Elia Kazan's Group Theatre and the Federal Theatre Project. He did Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Ibsen, and played everything from the tormented father in Arthur Miller's \u003ci\u003eAll My Sons\u003c\/i\u003e to an infant in a baby carriage in Thornton Wilder's \u003ci\u003eInfancy\u003c\/i\u003e, from the Rabbi in \u003ci\u003eFiddler on the Roof\u003c\/i\u003e to--poignantly for this book--the role of Morrie in \u003ci\u003eTuesdays with Morrie\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs she devotes herself to caring for her dying father, Mindy grapples anew with the complexity of their relationship. She questions whether she can be there for him and how to assert her own voice as her father's caregiver in his last days.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mindy Fried\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0826521150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826521156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanderbilt University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Mindy Fried","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48453418909951,"sku":"9780826521156","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6c321228-f04a-4303-ba1c-71a18354c4e8.jpg?v=1777300113","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/caring-for-red-mindy-fried-9780826521156","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}