In Another Place; With and Without My Father Norman Mailer

 Reading is one of my favorite pastimes and I am in awe of the authors who are able to

capture your imagination and write one winning masterpiece after another.  One talented, though controversial, author is Norman Mailer.  His books were celebrated and he was a best selling author, with books like, The Naked and The Dead and In the Belly of the Beast, among others.

His daughter Susan Mailer has chronicled her life with her father in a memoir titled, In Another Place WIth and Without My Father Norman Mailer.  Susan takes the reader on an intimate journey of the life she lived with her father.  It was intense, fractured and complex.  Norman Mailer was married six times and fathered nine children.  Susan details her relationship with Norman, all his wives and her siblings.  It is like getting to be the proverbial fly on the wall

In the Mailer household.

Interesting memoir by the daughter of Norman Mailer, Susan. She is the oldest child of Mailer, a controversial and bestselling author. She details her life with her father as he became a famous writer, and married six women and fathered her eight brothers and sisters. Years of traumatic encounters with her father, she finally comes to terms with his faults and can accept him to be the person he is. She works with therapists and becomes a therapist herself and she works through the situations her parents put her in throughout her life. An interesting story of an famous writer and his demons.