Im Down, Mishna Wolff
Im Down, Mishna Wolff
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I'm Down
A Memoir

Author: Mishna Wolff

Narrator: Mishna Wolff

Unabridged: 8 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/16/2009

Synopsis

Mishna Wolff grew up in a poor black neighborhood with her single father, a white man who truly believed he was black. "He strutted around with a short perm, a Cosby-esque sweater, gold chains and a Kangol—telling jokes like Redd Fox, and giving advice like Jesse Jackson. You couldn't tell my father he was white. Believe me, I tried," writes Wolff. And so from early childhood on, her father began his crusade to make his white daughter down.

Unfortunately, Mishna didn't quite fit in with the neighborhood kids: she couldn't dance, she couldn't sing, she couldn't double dutch, and she was the worst player on her all-black basketball team. She was shy, uncool, and painfully white. And yet when she was suddenly sent to a rich white school, she found she was too "black" to fit in with her white classmates.

I'm Down is a hip, hysterical, and at the same time beautiful memoir that will have you howling with laughter, recommending it to friends and questioning what it means to be black and white in America.

About Mishna Wolff

Mishna Wolff is a comedian and former model who grew up in Seattle, Washington. She was one of the 2009 Sundance Screenwriting Lab fellows. She currently divides her time between New York City and Los Angeles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by AudioBookLover on December 06, 2018

An excellent memoir. Mishna Wolff's reading of the audiobook was very good and she's really funny but I have to say that this audiobook has some of the worst sound I've ever heard on an audiobook. BOOK ***** AUDIOBOOK****......more

Goodreads review by Michael on June 22, 2009

Mishna Wolff's I'm Down purports to be both a ragingly funny family-dysfunction memoir à la Sedaris or Burroughs, and a perceptive take on racial identity. It's neither, but that shouldn't stop Wolff, who was raised by a white single father in the black working-class town of Rainier Valley, Washingt......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on May 20, 2013

People think this book is funny? What on earth is the matter with those people? This book isn't funny. It's depressing as all get-out. And it's not about racial identity, it's about child neglect and massive dysfunction. Goodness, the people who think this book is about racial identity have some ser......more

Goodreads review by Destiny (myhoneyreads) on March 29, 2018

Actual rating: 3.5 Memoirs aren’t really my thing but it was interesting to see Wolff’s perspective on race and poor vs rich. I had problems with this book that were personal but I really related to Mishna. I wouldn’t reread it but it was enjoyable.......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl on November 22, 2018

I’m Down by Mishna Wolff When a white child grows up in a white family with a father who thinks he’s black, acts like he’s black and expects his wife and 2 very young daughters to be just as black as the neighborhood they are growing up in, it can be a bit unnerving. Sure, he fits in, having grown u......more

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