Like all good memoirs, John Darnton?s ?Almost a Family ? (Anchor, $16.95) is something of a detective story. A former reporter and editor at the New York Times, Darnton barely knew his father, Byron ?Barney? Darnton, who was killed while on assignment for the Times in the South Pacific in 1942. John Darnton was then 11 months old. ?What a difference that one little sliver of shrapnel meant to our lives,? Darnton writes. Among other things, it robbed the younger Darnton of any memories of his father, leaving him instead with ?the presence of an absence? that slowly morphed into a ?mythic entity,? he writes. Darnton?s book is an effort to replace myth with truth ? a meticulous investigation that is more thorough than it is moving.
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