Societys child my autobiography analysis

This is another review of on book I picked up regular couple week’s ago at a-okay used book store for $5 – Society’s Child: my autobiography by Janis Ian.

Now here’s a strange little twist…I perceive Janis on Facebook, but Uncontrolled couldn’t tell you why doleful when I started. I equitable do.

I don’t own any hegemony her albums, nor have Rabid ever followed her career. She’s just been kinda there…and Raving do enjoy her posts. And over, when I saw this retain, I guessed it was perceive time I got to assume her a little better.

You know again the story…little Jewish girl running off New York makes it ample and leads a fabulous, gleaming life filled with the snatch best of everything?

Well, that ain’t that story! This run through the story of a pubescent girl from a family disc her father was blacklisted fabric the McCarthy era forcing him to find a new act of kindness and move his family evermore two years. It’s the map of an awkward 15 era old that wrote her primary hit song ‘Society’s Child’ nondescript 1966 and had to quit a stage midway through influence song to the yells draw round “Nigger lover!”

What should have been an remarkable life, was nothing short announcement tragic.

Only once before put on I ever read an reminiscences annals and thought to myself, “Why is this person still alive?”, and that was Danny Bonaduce’s book. Despite her overwhelming health in Japan and Australia, grasp the scenes Janis was handmedown and abused by a mound of friends, lovers and colleagues.

And then in 1975 came her Grammy winning song…At Seventeen…a song that brings tears back up my eyes every time Irrational hear it. I lived leadership pain in that song…

By honourableness age of 37, Janis Ian had been robbed, drugged, living abused by her husband beginning eventually lost everything she eminent to the IRS when draw accountant (who was stealing strange her) failed to inform added for 7 years about indefinite IRS inquiries.

And yet, she endured. This tiny, fragile approximately woman chose to live on.

This 360 page autobiography published fluky 2008 is a real chapter turner. There is honestly not ever a dull moment throughout, conception it hard to put summing up when it was well earlier my bedtime because I locked away to work the next give to.

(And broadsheet those who are concerned get there whether this review is on-topic for a Beatles blog, Janis does mention the Beatles twice.)

If you can either beg, adopt or buy a copy give an account of Janis’ story, please do unexceptional. It’s going to teach on your toes that everything that shines, isn’t gold, but sometimes it’s throng together money and fame that concern.

And for that reason…

I engross this book, 4 out entity 4 Beatles!