Generations and Family Boundaries
Family Drama · inspired by real events

The Names We Left Off

A former typesetter revisits a tribute to her father and must decide whose work her family left out of its own history.

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Genre
Family Drama
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
15
Fiction status
inspired by real events
Editorial responsibility
My Life Story Editorial

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Generations and Family Boundaries

Chapters

  1. 01The Proof
  2. 02What We Called Loyalty
  3. 03Fourteen Is Not Five
  4. 04The Drawing in the Box
  5. 05Ruth's Conditions
  6. 06The Version We Printed
  7. 07A Box Is Not a Verdict
  8. 08The Cost of a Label
  9. 09The Name I Signed
  10. 10The Offer We Almost Lost
  11. 11What Stays in the Drawer
  12. 12The Corrected Proof
  13. 13An Ordinary Opening
  14. 14What We Can Keep
  15. 15A Record With Margins

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