At BookExpo in NYC, Streisand talks about forthcoming design book, growing up without a father

Streisand discusses design book at NYC’s BookExpo

NEW YORK — Creating the perfect house is more than a passion for Barbra Streisand. It’s almost primal.

The 68-year-old singer-actress-director was promoting her upcoming design book Tuesday at BookExpo America at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.

Streisand says her many searches for cherished household objects is a way of compensating for her father’s dying when she was 15 months old.

She told interviewer Gayle King that she thinks not having a father contributed to “this need of finding something you’re looking for.”

Streisand’s “My Passion for Design” is scheduled to come out in the fall.