The Making of Americans - Hardcover

by Gertrude Stein (Author), Richard Kostelanetz (Editor)

The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress is a modernist novel by Gertrude Stein. The novel traces the genealogy, history, and psychological development of members of the fictional Hersland and Dehning families. Stein also includes frequent metafictional meditations on the process of writing the text that periodically overtakes the main narrative.