In Another Place: With and Without My Father Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer Susan Mailers father was among the most celebrated talented and controversial writers of the 20th Century. The Naked and the Dead (1948) inspired by his experience in World War II was a bestseller and made him famous at the age of 25. Notoriously combative and egotistical her father enjoyed a good fight both physically and verbally. Whether cheered or booed Mailer was front and center in Americas cultural battles for more than 50 years. He married six times and was father to nine children. Susan born in 1949 is the eldest.Susans parents separated when she was a baby. She grew up shuttling between her mothers home in Mexico and New York. Later she would marry a Chilean activist spending the majority of her adult life in Chile where she is a practicing psychoanalyst.In Another Place tells the story of her intense and complex relationship with her father her five stepmothers and nine siblings and the joys and pains of being part of the large Mailer clan. It is a tale of separation and of the rewards and struggles of living in two very different cultures. Of being someone who belongs everywhere and nowhere always longing for a life . . . In Another Place.