BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2485@tbzbrookline.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T200000 DTSTAMP:20220829T002429Z URL:https://www.tbzbrookline.org/events/letty-cottin-pogrebin-event/ SUMMARY:Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy with author Letty Cottin Pogr ebin - Hybrid DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\n \;\nShanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy&n bsp\;with author Letty Cottin Pogrebin\nThursday\, September 15\n7:00-9:00 pm\n(In person and on Zoom. Register for the Zoom link - See above.)\nCo-S ponsored by Jewish Women's Archive\, \;part of their 'Quarantine(ish) Book Talks' series\n7-8 Book Signing and Schmoozing\n8-9 Book Talk and Q&a mp\;A\n \;\n\nPogrebin grew up in a family of secrets. Too many things judged shame-worthy. \; Too many truths covered up\, embellished\, re packaged. As a child\, she \; thought secrecy and hiddenness were quin tessentially Jewish: Leah hiding behind a veil so Jacob could think his br ide was Rachel\; hidden Conversos in Spain\; Anne Frank hiding in the Anne x.\n\nHer parents hid behind masks rather than show their imperfections. P erfect American Jews weren’t supposed to have miserable marriages\, secr et divorces\, estranged brothers\, an abandoned child\, alcohol problems\, gay kids\, missing uncles\, an aunt who claimed to be barren but had two abortions\, or a multiply-challenged cousin whose condition might cast dou bt on the marriageability of the other cousins.\n\nPogrebin's relatives ar gued out loud about politics but whispered about who had “the C-word\; ” and the fact that her mother’s kitchen was kosher but she secretly f ed Pogrebin bacon for her health. When Pogrebin \; learned her parents ’ biggest secret about their prior lives — it \; shook her world.& nbsp\;\n\nPurchase Shanda through TBZ and JWA and save! RSVP and purchase HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.tbzbrookline.org/wp-content/uploads/ 2022/06/Shanda.jpg CATEGORIES:Featured END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR