The House of Joshua: Meditations on Family and Place

by Mindy Thompson Fullilove

Mindy Thompson Fullilove offers a series of meditations on her remarkable family and the places where they have lived. She lovingly recalls her parents: her father, a black leader of the labor movement, and her mother, a white woman whose boundless generosity was always in conflict with the racial divisions of the world around her. "Place" is a major actor in her family story, and in the course of bringing the backgrounds of six generations into the foreground, Fullilove uncovers the many lives—her own included—that are rooted in those places.

Genres: Nonfiction

168 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1999

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a wonderful, wonderful read. The author takes us inside the story of her growing up and her young and mid-adulthood. She welcomes us into the spaces and her meditations upon those spaces - community, home, internal and external places. It is an extraordinary reflection on a remarkable and beautiful life. I am so glad I read this.

[amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

as a whole the book was ok. i enjoyed how it offered the perspective of thinking about biographies in terms of the places they occured instead of specific events or people.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fullilove writes with love and joy about her family who become equally as respected and interesting to the reader. I'm interested in her ideas about the psychology of place.