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Caring for Red: A Daughter’s Memoir
February 3, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Porter Square Book is pleased to host a reading with MINDY FRIED, author of Caring for Red.
Caring for Red is MINDY FRIED’s moving and colorful account of caring for her ninety-seven-year-old father, Manny — an actor, writer, and labor organizer — in the final year of his life. This memoir chronicles the actions of two sisters as they discover concentric circles of support for their father and attempt to provide him with an experience of “engaged aging” in an assisted living facility.
As an actor, Manny was affiliated with Elia Kazan’s Group Theatre and the Federal Theatre Project. He did Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Ibsen, and played everything from the tormented father in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons to an infant in a baby carriage in Thornton Wilder’s Infancy, from the Rabbi in Fiddler on the Roof to — poignantly for this book — the role of Morrie in Tuesdays with Morrie.
As she devotes herself to caring for her dying father, MINDY FRIED grapples anew with the complexity of their relationship. She questions whether she can be there for him and how to assert her own voice as her father’s caregiver in his last days
Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.