"Brava, Sallie Bingham, for an intimate and courageous portrait of the complexities of her family in all its pose, love and need for emotional distractions. This compelling personal story is set against the backdrop of decades of world history, and in part reflects the American character, its values, and thus the consequences. I was totally immersed."
–Joan Brooks Baker, author of The Magnolia Code
"As Sallie Bingham tells it, her brother Jonathan was a deeply sensitive boy and young man who was ravaged by inherited privilege and familial neglect. In this riveting memoir, she searches for the meaning in her little brother's sad, truncated life. I couldn't put the book down."
–Polly Howells Past Praise for Sallie Bingham:
"There are many accounts of the Bingham family saga, but no other by someone who was there. For the first time, a gifted writer born into a family of inherited wealth and power takes us with her behind the doors of that patriarchal hothouse.
Passion and Prejudice is a major step toward feminist change and democracy."
–Gloria Steinem "Selected from five decades' work, [the stories of Mending] distill the mysterious glow that lives emanate as they recede into the past, and confirm Bingham's place in the front rank of practitioners of this elusive genre."
–The New Yorker "Fans of women's history and devotees of Southern family sagas will enjoy taking this detour into nonfiction territory."
–Library Journal "Bingham's work, including favorites such as "The Wedding" and "Sweet Peas," remains sharp and deliciously unsettling, ripe for discovery by a new generation of readers."
–Publishers Weekly, starred review
