ozarque ([info]ozarque) wrote,
@ 2007-11-12 07:36:00
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Recommended link; book review...
Recommended: an interesting review of Katha Pollitt's Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories by Cathleen Schine, titled "The In-Between Woman," at http://tinyurl.com/26nhjm . From the New York Review of Books.

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[info]idiotgrrl
2007-11-12 03:11 pm UTC (link)
Just from that description, I like Pollitt.

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[info]vesta_aurelia
2007-11-12 03:26 pm UTC (link)
Sometimes in those years when my mother was being "irrational," when I was sitting reading or doing my homework, she would touch my hair as she passed by....It wasn't till years after her death that I saw that touching me like that was her way of reassuring herself: I was there, I was all right, I was her precious growing daughter, safe and happy with my book. It was a protective gesture, and what she was protecting me from was herself.
This brought tears to my eyes and I'm not entirely sure why. But I think I need to buy this book and read it.

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(Anonymous)
2007-11-12 05:01 pm UTC (link)
Thank you. Pollitt's background and outlook sound intriguingly similar to mine. I grew up in Brooklyn in the forties and fifties with Russian socialist parents and grandparents. I'm not observant of philandering or obsessions in people I've chosen to love. My mother had a way, like Pollitt, of seeing reality as she wanted it to appear, and the older I get, the more I realize that I do too.

Meg Umans

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