Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy

by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Book Overview

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 imperfection--and in denial or despair when they couldn't.

"A frank and often amusing tabulation of well-kept family secrets... a story of high-stakes melodrama and surreptitious relations, in which runaway brides, false marriages, lost...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1637583966
• ISBN13: 9781637583968
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Post Hill Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.6"