Gentile reader, and you, Jews, come too. Follow Sue William Silverman, a one-woman cultural mash-up, on her exploration of identity among the mishmash of American idols and ideals that confuse most of us—or should. Pat Boone is our first stop. Now a Tea Party darling, Boone once shone as a squeaky-clean pop music icon of normality, an antidote for Silverman's own confusing and dangerous home, where being a Jew in a Christian school wasn't easy, and being the daughter of the Anti-Boone was unspeakable. And yet somehow Silverman found her way, a "gefilte fish swimming upstream, " and found her voice, which in this searching, bracing, hilarious, and moving book tries to make sense of that most troubling American condition: belonging, but to what?Picking apricots on a kibbutz, tramping cross-country in a loathed Volkswagen camper, appearing in a made-for-television version of her own life: Silverman is a bobby-soxer, a baby boomer, a hippy, a lefty, and a rebel with something to say to those of us—most of us—still wondering what to make of ourselves.
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- English
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Dear Gent[i]le Reader
- The Pat Boone Fan Club
- The Wandering Jew
- The Mercurialist
- Gentle Reader
- The Endless Possibilities of Youth
- Swimming Like a Gefilte Fish
- For Jews Only
- That Summer of War and Apricots
- The Invisible Synagogue
- Concerning Cardboard Ghosts, Rosaries, and the Thingness of Things
- Prepositioning John Travolta
- Gentle Reader
- Galveston Island Breakdown: Some Directions
- Gentle Reader
- The Fireproof Librarian
- Fahrvergnügen: A Road Trip Through a Marriage
- Almond Butter in the Ruints
- I Was a Prisoner on the Satellite of Love: (Featuring Crow R. Robot, star, Mystery Science Theater 3000)
- See the Difference
- The New Pat Boone Show
- My Sorted Past
- Gentle Reader
- An Argument for the Existence of Free Will and/or Pat Boone’s Induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Encore
- About the Author
- Series List
- Other Works by Sue William Silverman
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