An Irrational Imp and Other Memories
Katz, Beatrice / Katz, Michael B.
The essays in An Irrational Imp distill the insight, empathy, and wisdom of the author's long and productive life. The memories they convey range from her early twentieth-century youth in an immigrant working-class family in Boston to observations on graffiti in a women's restroom at Harvard near the century's close. They paint unforgettable images of an immigrant neighborhood, recall the tensions that etched emotional scars in a close but con...