| Description |
429 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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Includes glossary of Yiddish and Hebrew terms. |
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Discussion questions included (pages 419-421). |
| Contents |
Family secrets -- Private shame -- Guilty secrets -- Public shame. |
| Summary |
"In her deeply engaging, astonishingly candid memoir, author and activist Letty Cottin Pogrebin exposes the fiercely-guarded lies and intricate cover-ups woven by dozens of members of her extended family. Beginning with her own long-suppressed secret, the story spirals through the hidden lives of her parents and relatives--revealing the truth about their origins, personal traumas, marital misery, abandoned children, religious transgressions, sexual identity, radical politics, and supposedly embarrassing illnesses. While unmasking their charades and disguises, Pogrebin also showcases her family's remarkable talent for reinvention in a narrative that is, by turns, touching, searing, and surprisingly universal." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin -- Family.
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Pogrebin, Letty Cottin. |
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Jews -- United States -- Biography.
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Shame.
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Family secrets.
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Autobiography.
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Autobiography. |
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Families. |
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Family secrets. |
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Jews. |
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Shame. |
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United States. |
| Genre |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
1637583966 (hardcover) |
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9781637583968 (hardcover) |
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