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Review of ‘They Left Us Everything’

Which is harder to come to terms with: a 23-room clapboard mansion filled to bursting with “stuff,” or 60-plus years of complicated family relationships? Plum Johnson tackles both in They Left Us Everything, a memoir that’s both humorous and thoughtful.

An artist and former publisher, Johnson doesn’t seem particularly well suited to preside over the…

Interview with Plum Johnson

Tasked with cleaning out her late parents’ house, Plum Johnson made some surprising discoveries, which she chronicles with wit and insight in They Left Us Everything.

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