Among Friends
Among Friends is M. F. K. Fisher's fascinating memoir of her childhood in Whittier, California. In sharing these memorable and moving portraits of her family and of the town, we are given an enchanting glimpse into the early life of one of our most delightful and best-loved writers.\ \ A memoir of the author's childhood in Whittier, California from about 1912 to 1922, featuing portraits of her family and stories about her friends.\
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Originally published in 1970, Among Friends provides a fascinating glimpse into the background and development of one of our most delightful and best-loved writers, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher — the woman who elevated food writing to a literary art. In Among Friends M. F. K. Fisher begins her recollections in Albion, Michigan, but they soon lead her to Whittier, California, where her family moved in 1912, when she was four. The “Friends” of the title range from the hobos who could count on food at the family’s back door to the businessmen who advertised in Father’s paper—but above all they are the Quakers who were the prominent group in Whittier. Mary Frances Kennedy found them unusual friends indeed: in the more than forty years that she lived in Whittier she was never invited inside a Friend’s house. Her portraits of her father, Rex—her mentor, himself the editor of the local newspaper—her mother, Edith, and the other members of her family are memorable and moving.
Prologue: Child of an Inner "Ghetto"3Part IThe Family1)Then Begin Again212)A Footnote on the Scabrous Possibilities of the Most Innocent of Publications, Such as "The Miriam Cook Book"283)The Predilection for Lame Ducks324)The Bodies and Otherwise565)Love Blemished but Abiding626)The First and Best Batties977)Our "Girls" and a Few Ladies106Part IIThe Town8)Prejudice, Hate, and the First World War1219)Culture and Music and All That13710)Lightened Heart and Quickened Energies14711)Dance of the Slow Learner16012)The Best View17713)A Palace Incident18814)A Pagan Ornament19815)The Haunts of Sin and Iniquity205Part III...And Beyond16)Fugues and Evasions21517)Flora and a Few Fauna23118)A Footnote on Fauna, Largely Secret25119)The Separation of the Senses, or Not26020)Notes on Following the Gleam27921)Streets of Gold Forsworn29222)Petitions, Manifestoes, Broadsides, and Such300
