Missing Men

From the author of Minor Characters , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award – an “intricate and compelling” ( O, The Oprah Magazine ) memoir that chronicles her childhood and her two ill-fated marriages Joyce Johnson’s classic memoir of growing up female in the 1950s, Minor Characters , was one of the initiators of an important new genre: the personal story of a minor player on history’s stage. In Missing Men , a memoir that tells her mother’s story as well as her own, Johnson constru