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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