Shanda - Letty Cottin Pogrebin

An Intimate Memoir From A Founding Editor Of Ms. Magazine Who Grew Up In A Jewish Immigrant Family Mired In Secrets, Haunted By Their Dread Of Shame And Stigma, Determined To Hide Their Every Imperfectionand In Denial Or Despair When They Couldnt.the Richness Of Pogrebins Stories, The Complexity And Beauty Of Her Storytelling, And Her Devastatingly Honest Soul-baring Make Shanda A Powerfully Stunning Piece Of Life And Art.mayim Bialik, Actor, Author, Neuroscientist, And Co-host Of Jeopardythe Word Shanda Is Defined As Shame Or Disgrace In Yiddish. This Book, Shanda, Tells The Story Of Three Generations Of Complicated, Intense 20th-century Jews For Whom The Desire To Fit In And The Fear Of Public Humiliation Either Drove Their Aspirations Or Crushed Their 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.