Red Brick Black Mountain White Clay

<b>Beautiful haunted evocative and so open to where memory takes you. I kept thinking that this is the book that I have waited for: where objects and poetry intertwine. Just wonderful and completely sui generis. (Edmund de Waal author of <i>The Hare with Amber Eyes</i>)</b> <p/>An unforgettable voyage across the reaches of America and the depths of memory this generational memoir of one incredible family reveals America's unique craft tradition. In <i>Red Brick Black Mountain White Clay</i> renowned critic Christopher Benfey shares stories--of his mother's upbringing in rural North Carolina among centuries-old folk potteries; of his father's escape from Nazi Europe; of his great-aunt and -uncle Josef and Anni Albers famed Bauhaus artists exiled at Black Mountain College--unearthing an ancestry and an aesthetic that is quintessentially American. With the grace of a novelist and the eye of a historian Benfey threads these stories together into a radiant and mesmerizing harmony.