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Tannen, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller You Just Don't Understand, talks about her debut memoir, Finding My Father. She traces her father’s story–from a Hasidic family in WWI Warsaw to Depression-era New York City; from quitting high school at fourteen to work in a factory through a vast array of jobs, including prison guard and gun-toting alcohol tax inspector, to establishing his own law firm and running for Congress. Finding journals he kept and letters he saved from another woman he might have married, she was forced to rethink her assumptions about her father’s life and her parents’ marriage. It’s an unflinching account of a daughter’s struggle to see her father more clearly, to know him more deeply, and to find a more truthful story about her family and herself.