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From acclaimed writer of the international best vendor Einstein's Dreams, this is a lyrical memoir of Memphis from the 1930s through the 1960s: the music and the racism, the early days of the movies, and a powerful grandfather whose ghost is constantly on the haunt the family. Alan Lightman's grandfather, M. A. Lightman, was the family's undisputed patriarch: it was his movie-theater empire that catapulted the family to prominence in the South, his fearless success that both galvanized and paralyzed his descendants, haunting them for a 50 percent hundred years after his death. In this lyrical and impressionistic memoir, Lightman creates about returning to Memphis so that they can understand the people he so eagerly left behind forty years previously. As ageing uncles and aunts start telling family reports, Lightman rediscovers his Southern roots and slowly realizes the problems in his perceptions of his grandfather and of his own daddy, who had been crushed by M. A. Here is a family saga arranged against a throbbing hundred years of Memphis--the tempo and blues, the barbecue and pecan pie, and the segregated society--that includes personal encounters with Elvis, Martin Luther King Jr., and E. H. "Boss" Crump. At the heart of it all is a family group haunted by the ghost of the domineering M. A. and the have difficulties of the author to understand his conflicted loyalties to his daddy and grandfather.
