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Missing Men: A Memoir by Joyce Johnson

agmaynard's review

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

Memoir of a writer's beginnings. And also of men who left too soon--or who had to be left. From the grandfather whose loss haunted her mother's generation, to her loss of her father. Her first husband, abstract artist Jim Johnson, who died early. Artist spouse Peter Pinchbeck, whom she had to leave, but hovered in their lives. These men also had fathers who walked out early. Very well done, and will have me seeking out Minor Characters, an earlier memoir.
The ending, re Peter: "He died before he could outlive his imagination. Any artist would wish for such an ending. I would like to be as lucky and as brave."