THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE
The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels. . . So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry.