Apr 22, 2008
Author returns to Darien to discuss new memoir
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Reeve Lindbergh, who spent her childhood in Darien, will discuss her new book, “Forward from Here: Leaving Middle Age — and Other Unexpected Adventures,” at 1 p.m. on Friday, April 25, at the Darien Community Association, 274 Middlesex Road.
In her new book, Lindbergh discusses the milestone of turning 60. As the youngest child of the late Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, she also reveals the shock of learning that her father had three secret families in Europe.
In her earlier book, “Under a Wing,” Lindbergh chronicled her years in Darien. In her new collection of essays, she reflects on what it means to be 60 — the age her mother wisely called “the youth of age” — and how the milestones have shaped her life and perceptions.
While the book at times focuses on the issues surrounding the tectonic shift of age, it also records moments of high drama. Lindbergh writes of her diagnosis with a brain tumor that required surgery and excerpts from her journal record the emotional impact of her illness.
Another issue, included in the last essay of the book, explores Lindbergh’s problematic relationship with her father and her reaction to the revelation — made public in 2003 — that Charles Lindbergh had three secret families in Europe and seven additional children.
“All these decades after his death, when I learned that there were three women in my father’s life besides my mother, one of my first thoughts was that this arrangement made a certain kind of sense,” Lindbergh writes. “No one woman could have lived with him all the time.”
The event, co-sponsored by the DCA and Barrett Bookstore, is free to DCA members and $10 for non-members. Refreshments will be served before the talk, and Lindbergh’s books will be available for purchase.
Sign up for the talk will take place at the DCA and Barrett Bookstore. Tickets can also be purchased at the door.
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