{"product_id":"next-of-kin-a-memoir-hardcover","title":"Next of Kin: A Memoir - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGabrielle Hamilton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn electrifying memoir about the demise of a singular family--a stunning new book by Gabrielle Hamilton, author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and James Beard Award winner \u003ci\u003eBlood, Bones \u0026amp; Butter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"You won't be able to put down Gabrielle Hamilton's story of the excitement, resilience, agony, and defiance required to be a member of her family. She doesn't mess around.\"--Ariel Levy, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rules Do Not Apply\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"We were a family veined through with certain brutalities, rifts, and unresolved conflicts, as well as some remarkable violences and some decades-long silences. But together we had rituals, systems, congruent cohering events that made us who we were as one. I thought of the black and blue marks as if they were the desirable spores of mold found in noble cheeses.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe youngest of five children, Gabrielle Hamilton took pride in her unsentimental, idiosyncratic family. She idolized her parents' charisma and non-conformity. She worshipped her siblings' mischievousness and flair. Hers was a family with no fondness for the humdrum. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHamilton grew up to find enormous success, first as a chef and then as the author of award-winning, bestselling books. But her family ties frayed in ways both seismic and mundane until eventually she was estranged from them all. In the wake of one brother's sudden death and another's suicide, while raising young children of her own, Hamilton was compelled to examine the sprawling, complicated root system underlying her losses. She began investigating her family's devout independence and individualism with a nearly forensic rigor, soon discovering a sobering warning in their long-held self-satisfaction. By the time she was called to care for her declining mother--the mother she'd seen only twice in thirty years--Hamilton had realized a certain freedom, one made possible only through a careful psychological autopsy of her family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHamilton's gift for pungent dialogue, propulsive storytelling, intense honesty, and raucous humor made her first book a classic of modern memoir. In \u003ci\u003eNext of Kin\u003c\/i\u003e, she offers a keen and compassionate portrait of the people she grew up with and the prevailing but soon-to-falter ethos of the era that produced them. A personal account of one family's disintegration, \u003ci\u003eNext of Kin\u003c\/i\u003e is also a universal story of the emotional clarity that comes from scrutinizing our family mythologies and seeing through to the other side.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGabrielle Hamilton\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eBlood, Bones \u0026amp; Butter, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the James Beard Foundation's award for Writing and Literature, and the cookbook \u003ci\u003ePrune\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the chef\/owner of Prune restaurant in New York City's East Village. Hamilton received an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Michigan and contributed to the monthly \"Eat\" column for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e for five year\u003ci\u003es. \u003c\/i\u003eHer work has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The New York Times, GQ, Bon Appétit, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, Elle, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHouse Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.4 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52558115832115,"sku":"9780399590092","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/nV8n1RXHX79780399590092.webp?v=1761206089","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/next-of-kin-a-memoir-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}