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NeverTellOurBusinesstoStrangers(Never Tell Our Business To Strangers: A Memoir) [Hardcover](2010)byJennifer Mascia (2000)

by Jennifer Mascia(Favorite Author)

2.87 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Villard

review 1: This book was written as an attempt for the author to cope with her parents' deaths. Although her parents did live interesting lives (her father was associated with mob activities), the narration by their daughter is frustrating if you expect this to be a biography of their lives. Mascia simply doesn't have enough adult perspective and information to be able to provide a biography. At one point she actually consults a forensic psychoanalyst to posthumously shrink her parents, and a good chunk of the book is spent reading newspaper articles she discovered. Really anyone with similar resources could have learned much of the same information. If you go into it expecting a memoir of her grief (a la Didion's Year of Magical Thinking), you will probably enjoy it more. In t... morehis respect, it probably does a good job conveying the loss that very young adults experience when they lose a parent.
review 2: This book was not at all what I was expecting from the publisher's synopsis, and that was a huge disappointment This book is not about a girl's life with a father in the Mafia, it was 400 pages of her finding out that her dad was in the Mafia before she was born. Throughout her childhood, during which she went to private school and was a cheerleader, she had no idea her father was a criminal. While his life may have been interesting (not that we know), hers certainly was not. There are several issues I had with this book. It was way, way to long and could have used some serious editing. At no time do you get a sense of Jennifer and who she is. The only thing I can tell you about her personality after reading this book is that she cries. A lot. She doesn't show you anything with her writing, she tells you. The writing was poor, it could have been at least half as long, and above all, it was just plain boring. less

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