Coalition’s Reading Room: “Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy,” by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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December 6, 2024

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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.

Jake Nevins, New York Times, writes “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 mishegas.”

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Feminist Icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin, ‘Shanda’ Author

October 2022

Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein interviews feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin, one of the founding editors of Ms. Magazine, about her new memoir “Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy.”

In her deeply intimate account, Pogrebin reveals the fear of shame and stigma that indelibly marked her upbringing in an immigrant Jewish family in Queens, N.Y. With wit, humor and affection, Pogrebin, who states that “happiness lies in a secret-free life,” slowly uncovers family foibles, secrets and deceptions, and shares a few of her own, capturing universal truths about families, truth-telling and the price of guilt. Read an excerpt from the book here.

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