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Life Among the Savages
''Life Among the Savages'' is a collection of short stories edited into novel form, written by Shirley Jackson. Originally these stories were published individually in women's magazines such as ''Good Housekeeping'', ''Woman's Day'', ''Mademoiselle'', and others. Published in 1952, ''Life Among the Savages'' is a moderately fictionalised memoir of the author's life with her own four children,〔(Review in the New York TImes, May 2015 )〕 an early work in what Laura Shapiro calls "the literature of domestic chaos".
==Plot summary==
Jackson — speaking as the nameless mother who serves as narrator — relates a period of roughly six years in the life of her family, focusing particularly on her attempts to keep peace and domestic efficiency despite her increasing number of children. As the book's primary incidents begin the mother has "two children and about five thousand books" and predicts that before they leave their home they will have "twenty children and easily half a million books". The two children are Laurie and Jannie, named for and based largely on Jackson's two eldest children.〔(Interview with Jackson's son in The New Yorker )〕 Laurie is five, just beginning kindergarten, and "clamoring for the right to vote on domestic policies"; Jannie is nearly two. Eventually a third child, Sally — likewise named for and based upon Jackson's own third child — is introduced into the often overwhelming hilarity and chaos of domestic life, as the three children evolve into highly independent personalities. The book closes with the birth of yet another baby, Barry, who is again a fictional stand-in for Jackson's youngest child.
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