Kathryn Harrison has been on my “to read” list for years. Glad I picked up this slim volume (quick audiobook). Among her ancestors were Jewish merchants from Baghdad who became British citizens and then Americans.  Some of her relatives peddled opium in pre-Communist China; others wrote poetry; some were hardly noticed. Young Kathryn attended Christian Science Church and Catholic school and spent much more time with her grandparents than the mother she resented, a bisexual spendthrift/ shoe collector. Riches to rags in 1970s LA as Kathryn gains consciousness of the world.