In
The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein also meditates on her own writing, on the making of
The Making of Americans, and on America.
“Indubitably the most monumental fiction to be given since the publication of Ulysses.”—Saturday Review of Literature