NAKED IN THE PROMISED LAND: A Memoir Lillian Faderman, Author. Houghton Mifflin $26 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. Chloe Plus . Naked in the Promised Land. Publishers Weekly " [A] painful dynamic—driven by Faderman’s conflicting need to save herself and her mother—drives the book to disturbing emotional depths." Kirkus "Noted gay-studies scholar Faderman crafts one of those rare autobiographies that conscientiously detail the temptations of destructive behavior Estimated Reading Time: 40 secs. · Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir. Naked in the Promised Land.: An “exceedingly honest, endearing and profound” memoir by the daughter of a Holocaust survivor who grew up to become a pioneer for gay and lesbian rights (Publishers Weekly). Lillian Faderman was born in , the only child of an uneducated, unmarried, Jewish immigrant woman.4/5(2).
Noted gay-studies scholar Faderman (To Believe in Women, , etc.) crafts one of those rare autobiographies that conscientiously detail the temptations of destructive behavior while also celebrating the resilience of the human bltadwin.ru, this is a classic tale of the child of an immigrant who gets to live the American dream that eluded her mother. Faderman nails the characters in her memoir so vividly they become next door neighbors. This book is a fast paced, beautifully written life journey. The reader is dismayed as the author seeks in vain to find her way through a childhood filled with little and wolefully inaccurate information to navigate. Told with wrenching immediacy and great power: Naked in the Promised Land is the extraordinary story of an exceptional woman and her remarkable, unorthodox life. Industry Reviews Lillian Faderman's portrait of her mother and aunt, lone survivors of their slaughtered family, who have come to America laden with hope, is full of tenderness and.
Indeed, this is a classic tale of the child of an immigrant who gets to live the American dream that eluded her mother. Faderman was born in the Bronx in , the only child of an unwed Polish immigrant who came to the Bronx with her sister Rae in Faderman nails the characters in her memoir so vividly they become next door neighbors. This book is a fast paced, beautifully written life journey. The reader is dismayed as the author seeks in vain to find her way through a childhood filled with little and wolefully inaccurate information to navigate. Naked in the Promised Land.: An “exceedingly honest, endearing and profound” memoir by the daughter of a Holocaust survivor who grew up to become a pioneer for gay and lesbian rights (Publishers.
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