Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 248 pages
Genre: Memoir
ISBN: 0803264852
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Reviewed by Beth Tropp
The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew tells a
universal story of a young woman trying to discover who she truly is apart from
what her family, culture and surroundings have told her she is. What makes this
memoir is unique is that author Sue William Silverman is simultaneously trying
to find herself and run away from herself at the same time. It makes for a
fascinating "Alice down the Rabbit Hole" feeling at times.
This memoir flits between Silverman's childhood and her young adulthood,
weaving the events and feelings of her early family life with how she reacts
decades later. Silverman's writing is very alive. As a reader you feel immersed
in her world, not just seeing it but feeling, tasting and smelling it. She
weaves ribbons from moments in her childhood to odd obsessions and reactions she
experiences in later life. It's an eye-opening tale that will have you
re-examining your own life, wondering how much of your life is not an
independent choice but a reaction to your childhood.
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