About the Book: Between Them
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sportswriter comes a deeply
personal account of his parents- an intimate portrait of American mid-twentieth
century life, and a celebration of family love Richard Fords parents volunteered
little about their early lives- and he rarely asked. Later, he pieced their
stories together from anecdote, history and the occasional photograph, frozen
moments linking him to another time. Edna Akin, a dark-eyed Arkansas beauty
whose convent education was cut short by her itinerant parents, fell in love
aged only seventeen. Parker Ford was a tall country boy with a warm, hesitant
smile, who was working at a