In the Darkroom From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash comes In the Darkroom an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consu
From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consuming our age In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father The project began with a grievance, the grievance of a daughter whose parent hFrom the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consuming our age In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father The project began with a grievance, the grievance of a daughter whose parent had absconded from her life I was in pursuit of a scofflaw, an artful dodger who had skipped out on so many things obligation, affection, culpability, contrition I was preparing an indictment, amassing discovery for a trial But somewhere along the line, the prosecutor became a witness So begins Susan Faludi s extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga When the feminist writer learned that her 76 year old father long estranged and living in Hungary had undergone sex reassignment surgery, that investigation would turn personal and urgent How was this new parent who identified as a complete woman now connected to the silent, explosive, and ultimately violent father she had known, the photographer who d built his career on the alteration of images Faludi chases that mystery into the recesses of her suburban childhood and her father s many previous incarnations American dad, Alpine mountaineer, swashbuckling adventurer in the outback, Jewish fugitive in Holocaust Budapest When the a
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Susan Faludi
Susan C Faludi born April 18, 1959 is an American humanist, journalist and author She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores, Inc a report that the Pulitzer Prize committee commended for depicting the human costs of high finance.Faludi was born to a Jewish family in Queens, New York in 1959 and grew up in Yorktown Heights, New York Her mother was a homemaker and journalist and is a long time New York University student Her father is a photographer who had emigrated from Hungary, a survivor of the Holocaust Susan graduated from Harvard University in 1981, where she wrote for The Harvard Crimson, and became a journalist, writing for The New York Times, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal Constitution, San Jose Mercury News, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications Throughout the eighties she wrote several articles on feminism and the apparent resistance to the movement Seeing a pattern emerge, Faludi wrote Backlash, which was released in late 1991 In 2008 2009, Faludi was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study She lives with fellow author Russ Rymer Since January 2013, Faludi has been a contributing editor at The Baffler magazine in Cambridge, Massachusetts from