In Another Place: With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer

Written by Susan Mailer

Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley

Norman Mailer, Susan Mailer's father, was among the most celebrated, talented, and controversial writers of the 20th Century. The Naked and the Dead (1948), inspired by his experience in World War II, was a bestseller and made him famous at the age of 25. Notoriously combative and egotistical, her father enjoyed a good fight both physically and verbally. Whether cheered or booed, Mailer was front and center in America's cultural battles for more than 50 years. He married six times and was father to nine children. Susan, born in 1949, is the eldest.

Susan's parents separated when she was a baby. She grew up shuttling between her mother's home in Mexico and New York. Later she would marry a Chilean activist, spending the majority of her adult life in Chile, where she is a practicing psychoanalyst.

In Another Place tells the story of her intense and complex relationship with her father, her five stepmothers and nine siblings, and the joys and pains of being part of the large Mailer clan. It is a tale of separation, and of the rewards and struggles of living in two very different cultures. Of being someone who belongs everywhere and nowhere, always longing for a life . . . In Another Place.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Dec 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9781713552093

Susan Mailer

Susan Mailer, a 1971 Barnard graduate, finished her graduate studies in Clinical Psychology in Mexico, becoming a psychoanalyst in 1992. She has a private practice in Santiago, Chile where she lives with her husband, three grown children and grandchildren. She also teaches and supervises. A co-founder of the new Psychoanalytic Association of Santiago, her articles have been published in books and in various Latin American journals.