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Grand : a memoir / Sara Schaefer.

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"When Sara Schaefer is in first grade, her father warns her to always tell the truth because one lie leads to another and soon you will find yourself in a hole you can't escape. A few years later, the Schaefer family is completely upended when it's revealed that their grand life is based on a lie. Her parents become pariahs in their upper middle class community and go from non-religious people to devout church members. The idea of good and evil as binary, opposed forces is drilled into Sara and it becomes the perfect framework on which to build her anxiety and increasingly-obsessive thoughts. The year she turns forty, Sara decides to take each member of her family on a one-on-one vacation culminating with a whitewater rafting journey through the Grand Canyon with her younger sister. The only problem is she's terrified of rafting. Along the way, she grapples with unresolved grief over the death of her mother and the family scandal that changed the trajectory of her life. Heartfelt, candid, and witty, Grand is a story about family, identity, and struggling to make something of yourself. Sara deconstructs her struggles with anxiety and depression, what it means to be a good person, and the radically discordant stories we tell ourselves and share with the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781982102210 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 279 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Gallery Books, 2020.
Subject: Schaefer, Sara Carole, 1978- > Family.
Schaefer, Sara Carole, 1978- > Travel > Arizona > Grand Canyon.
Shaffer family > Anecdotes.
Comedians > New York (State) > New York > Biography > Anecdotes.
Women comedians > New York (State) > New York > Biography > Anecdotes.
Grand Canyon (Ariz.) > Description and travel > Anecdotes.
Genre: Biographies.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Cookstown Branch 917.91320453092 Sch 31681010203529 NONFIC Available -


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