Raising Demons
IN THE UPROARIOUS SEQUEL TO LIFE AMONG THE SAVAGES, SHIRLEY JACKSON CONFRONTS THE MOST VEXING DEMONS YET: HER CHILDREN
Best known for her chilling novels and stories, Shirley Jackson was equally masterful at chronicling the chaos of motherhood and small-town life. In her second memoir, Jackson's savages - her four children - are all grown into full-fledged demons. Confronting a move to a new house, a faulty refrigerator, Little League, and enough clutter to bury her alive, Jackson fends off domestic nightmares with one hand while spinning them into charming and witty stories with the other. A celebration of the strangeness of ordinary family life and a portrait of the 1950s ripped straight out of Mad Men and Norman Rockwell, Raising Demons is Shirley Jackson's reminder that every bit as thrilling as a murderous family in a haunted house is a loving family in a new home.
"HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE, SHARP WITHOUT BEING LETHAL, AND LOVING WITHOUT AN OUNCE OF SENTIMENT, SHIRLEY JACKSON'S MORE-OR-LESS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF LIFE AS A MOTHER OF FOUR AND FACULTY WIFE (AND BRILLIANT WRITER) IS AN ETERNAL, COMIC JOY." - AMY BLOOM