ASIN: B008YHA64Q
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Pages: 206
“The first time I heard I was a murderer was in Miss Johnson’s class in second grade.”So begins the story of Jewel Beth Davis, a woman who grew up in a Jewish household in the fifties and sixties in Quincy, Massachusetts, in a neighborhood that had very few Jewish families, and where people thought of Jews only in terms of killing Christ. The resulting adult is both psychologically flawed and uniquely creative.The memoir is a compilation of humor-based stories about Davis's childhood through adulthood, laced together chronologically within the bookends of telling family stories to her nieces and nephews. Many of the stories chronicle Davis’s developmental experiences in Quincy, her parents’ dysfunctional parenting skills, and the coloring of her world with Depression-era Jewish negativity and humor. Jewel A Memoir is the story of a life that metamorphoses from tragedy to a joyful ...
