Gatsby’s Child

• Gatsby’s Child
• Price: $18.00
• Gatsby’s Child
• Price: $18.00
• Dorin Schumacher
• Nonfiction, Memoir
• 234 Pages | PB
• ISBN 978-1-7320091-6-5
• LCCN 2018955081
• October 15, 2018

MEET THE AUTHOR

We asked Dorin Schumacher two questions. Why did you write Gatsby’s Child: Coming of Age in East Egg and why do you write memoir?

“I wrote Gatsby’s Child: Coming of Age in East Egg because I had stories in my head from my childhood and adolescence that needed revealing.”–Dorin Schumacher

“I write memoir because it empowers truth telling and the sharing of oneself. The more honest we are the more we empower honesty in others.”–Dorin Schumacher

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ABOUT

A young Gentile and Jewish woman grows into adulthood with an abusive mother and a womanizing father who met on Broadway. The grandaughter of silent film star Helen Gardner, she discovers her own sexuality and empowerment, while navigating the uber wealthy and racist East Egg society.

PRAISE

“Gatsby’s Child is that most American of stories, a young person forced to solve the mystery of who she is and who she might become. The daughter of a dissolute blueblood mother and a social-climbing fraud of a father, Dorin Schumacher tries to fi gure out where she fi t into high WASP society on Long Island in the 1950s. Was she rich or poor? Gentile or Jew? The one free-thinking intellectual on her cheerleading squad, or a promiscuous beauty trying to win her coldly seductive father’s love? Schumacher spares no one—parents, teachers, neighbors, girlfriends, beaus, least of all herself. Yet this beautifully rendered memoir turns Fitzgerald’s great American tragedy into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, survival, and triumph.”
– Eileen Pollack, author of The Professor of Immortality, and The Bible of Dirty Jokes