Where Love Begins: Portrait Carl Sandburg His Family as Seen Thru Eyes His Youngest Daughter

Helga Sandburg. Plume Books, $10.95 (368pp) ISBN 978-1-55611-223-2

Adopting an embarrassingly disingenuous third-person narrator, ``this memoir by Carl Sandburg's youngest daughter promises more than it delivers to readers hoping to peer into her father's life,'' determined PW . ``The book's true, if only furtively treated, subject is the author's own struggle to grow up and apart from her formidable family.'' Photos. (Sept.)

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