{"product_id":"shanda-a-memoir-of-shame-and-secrecy-9781637583968","title":"Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn intimate memoir from a founding editor of \u003ci\u003eMs.\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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 children and other moral crises abound. But there is more here than \u003ci\u003emishegas\u003c\/i\u003e.\" --Jake Nevins, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The richness of Pogrebin's stories, the complexity and beauty of her storytelling, and her devastatingly honest soul-baring make Shanda a powerfully stunning piece of life and art.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --Mayim Bialik, actor, author, neuroscientist, and co-host of \u003ci\u003eJeopardy\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe word \"shanda\" is defined as shame or disgrace in Yiddish. This book, \u003ci\u003eShanda\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 spirit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLetty Cottin Pogrebin, co-founder of \u003ci\u003eMs. \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, is a nationally acclaimed writer, activist, and public speaker. The author of twelve books, she has also published articles and essays in numerous print and online periodicals, including the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus and the \u003ci\u003eMs.\u003c\/i\u003e Foundation for Women; a past president of the Authors Guild and Americans for Peace Now; and has served on the boards of the Harvard Divinity School Women in Religion Program and the Brandeis University Women's and Gender Studies Program. Among her many honors is a Yale University Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, a Matrix Award for excellence in communication and the arts, and an Emmy Award for her work as consulting editor on the TV version of Marlo Thomas's \u003ci\u003eFree to Be...You and Me\u003c\/i\u003e. Pogrebin lives with her husband in New York City and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003elettycottinpogrebin.com \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFacebook.com\/letty.pogrebin\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Post Hill Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50642109792530,"sku":"9781637583968","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_86ad3228-f944-4adc-993a-b0e692eef856.jpg?v=1733057966","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shanda-a-memoir-of-shame-and-secrecy-9781637583968","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}