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It’s this unparallelled intimacy, though—this most private glimpse into the everyday lives of this constellation of people—coupled with the photographer’s reverent and gifted eye, that elevates it to a place beyond mere family photo album fodder. Like when you knocked out the light on his car and went straight to McDonald’s before coming home, delivering a Happy Meal with the news.

The narrator’s actual wedding speech is never included in the book, but clever readers can certainly infer the stories that made it into the speech and those left out. He describes the eighty men put under his care, the heat, the food, the mosquitoes, the children from the villages who came by to sell Popsicles to the platoon. What the outraged critics of her child nudes failed to grant was the patent devotion involved throughout the project and the delighted complicity of her son and daughters in so many of the solemn or playful events. We also spoke about cultural narratives about female authorship and desire, especially in light of the US Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v.The brother is renamed Danny and the family starts their life in a small town in California, close to San Francisco. As she’s dealing with this wedding speech she also describes the last few years of trying to get pregnant and start her own family with her husband, but all the fertility drugs and procedures don’t seem to be working. I also particularly enjoyed the discourse in language and language barriers that was scattered throughout this story, not the main theme for sure but something I personally really enjoy.

Taken against the Arcadian backdrop of her woodland summer home in Virginia, Sally Mann’s extraordinary, intimate photographs of her children reveal truths that embody the individuality of her own family yet ultimately take on a universal quality. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

I found myself nodding as I was reading certain lines about not wanting/wanting children and all the messy feelings that come with those thoughts.