Abstract
“ ‘C an you harmonize?’ ” nine-year-old Eva Hoffman’s father asks her as he hums a tune that he wants her to accompany on her violin (4). The Hoffman family—father, David, mother, Leah, Eva, and her six-year-old sister, Sarah—are enjoying the cool of an early summer evening in 1951 in a green pasture outside Topeka, Kansas, where they now live because the father is a psychiatrist at the Menninger Clinic. Eva is somewhat hesitant about her ability to harmonize, but she manages quite well. Whether the Hoffmans are able to harmonize metaphorically with Topeka is a much thornier question.
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© 2005 Lilian R. Furst
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Furst, L.R. (2005). “Can You Harmonize?”. In: Random Destinations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403979414_10
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