Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless by Susan Jane Gilman
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Overview: From the author of “Kiss My Tiara” comes a funny and poignant collection of true stories about women coming of age that for once isn’t about finding a date.
Gilman’s memoir of growing up on Manhattan’s upper Upper West Side in the ’70s starts slowly but gathers momentum. Readers who find themselves drifting during Gilman’s reveries on lying during show-and-tell will find themselves pleasantly riveted by the time she’s getting in touch with her roots as a reporter for the Jewish Week. Gilman, author of 2001’s Kiss My Tiara, a women’s self-help guide, makes common scenarios fresh with humor and wry social commentary; on the first day of school, she quickly learns “boys might be fighters, but girls could be terrorists.”
Gilman’s ear for dialogue is dead-on. When her brother asks their dad why their Jewish family celebrates Christmas, she doesn’t miss a beat: “Because your grandmother’s a Communist and your mother loves parties,’ said my father. ‘Now eat your supper.”
These one-liners don’t detract, however, from a serious and moving look at one family’s efforts to keep itself intact through divorce and other life challenges. After her parents separate, Gilman, then in her mid-20s, fears she and her brother had spent their childhoods in happy oblivion while their parents were “spellbound with misery.”
Probably not: Gilman’s recollections of moving bumpily toward adulthood are keenly observant. She’s nicely made the leap from self-help to narrative nonfiction.
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
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