The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803264854)

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.

Author: Sue William Silverman
ISBN-10: 0803264852
ISBN-13: 9780803264854
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2014
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.53w x 0.61d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2014