Having And Being Had Condition:Well Read Elizabeth must choose between family

Elizabeth must choose between family duty and true love

Publication Date: 14 Sep 2010

Her distraught mother

then lived

Yet we drift into feeling that our daily lives are the product of our own efforts

Having And Being Had Condition:Well Read Elizabeth must choose between familyAn incisive collection from award winning author Eula Biss, Having and Being Had is a personal reckoning with the intricacies of money, class and capitalism.'My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts,' Eula Biss writes, 'the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after.' Having just purchased her first home, she now embarks on a roguish and risky self audit of the value system she has bought into. The result is a radical