America's Child: A Woman's Journey Through the Radical Sixties

America's Child is the story of the journey of a child of first-generation immigrant parents from a working-class neighborhood in Philadelphia to the mythic avenues of 1940s Hollywood, through the transformative years of Berkeley, to the avant-garde art world of New York, to a Cuban movie theater filled with Vietnamese students and the turbulence of the sixties.

Susan Sherman's journey, during a period in which the world was in ferment and large sections of the population were engaged in active self-examination and agitating for social change, is one of discovery and introspection.

From the cultural renaissance of the late 1950s, through the sexual revolution, to political activism that starts with world issues and ends with struggles around sexism and homophobia, America's Child is simultaneously cultural history, social discourse, and a deeply personal narrative.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Published: 10/01/2007
ISBN: 9781931896351
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 7.88h x 5.57w x 0.81d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/24/2007 pg. 60
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2007 pg. 978
Booklist 11/01/2007 pg. 13
New York Times Book Review 02/10/2008 pg. 13
Multicultural Review 06/01/2008 pg. 64