

In the Darkroom
Author: Susan Faludi
Narrator: Laurel Lefkow
Unabridged: 13 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 08/23/2016
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography
Author: Susan Faludi
Narrator: Laurel Lefkow
Unabridged: 13 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 08/23/2016
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography
Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the author of The Terror Dream, Stiffed, and Backlash, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, Harper’s, and the Baffler, among other publications.
Laurel Lefkow is an accomplished radio actress and winner of several AudioFile Earphones Awards for audiobook narration. Her many theater credits include Look Back in Anger, Little Foxes, The Heiress, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Boy Next Door. On television she can be seen in A Class Act, Small Metal Jacket, and The Perfect Family.
This was an intriguing memoir that addresses issues of identity - religious, cultural, and gender. Through her endeavors to reconcile her estranged relationship with her Hungarian, Jewish father (who recently transitioned into a woman), the author delves into her father’s past experiences during the......more
For the most part harrowing, but with hilarious interludes, much needed comic relief. An extraordinary story of a extraordinarily complex person. I did not expect the rich content here about the Hungarian portion of the Shoah, content I’ve never come across before in my wide reading. Late in life, j......more
This is a phenomenal work of narrative/investigative journalism and personal inquiry -- I cannot recommend it highly enough. I saw a review recently that said this book might seem implausible if it had been presented as a work of fiction (a novel), and all the more incredible since it is true. I agr......more
“A gripping and honest personal journey.” Entertainment Weekly
“In this riveting book…Ms. Faludi unfolds her father’s story like the plot of a detective novel.” Wall Street Journal
“An absolute stunner of a memoir―probing, steel-nerved, moving in ways you’d never expect.” New York Times
“A mash-up of genres and themes about…questions of identity: Who―or what―makes us who and what we are?” Elle
“Remarkable, moving, and courageous.” Guardian (London)
“Narrator Laurel Lefkow shines most brightly when recounting the most difficult moments of Susan Faludi’s life… Lefkow captures moments of fragility and nuance…[and] ably handles the passages of exposition, giving extensive background on gender identity, anti-Semitism, and the Jewish experience in Europe during WWII. This immersive story about a father and daughter illuminates so much more.” AudioFile
“Penetrating and lucid…Faludi’s rich, arresting, and ultimately generous investigation of her father.” New York Times Book Review
“Astonishing, unique…should be essential reading.“ Irish Independent (Dublin)
“Extraordinary. Part riveting family memoir, part revelatory Holocaust history, but most of all a profound meditation on human identity.” National Book Review
“A remarkable story containing a set of parallel motifs that seem too absurdly perfect to be credible.” Slate