Nobody's Son: A Memoir
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Mark Slouka. (2016). Nobody's Son: A Memoir. Unabridged HighBridge.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Mark Slouka. 2016. Nobody's Son: A Memoir. HighBridge.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Mark Slouka, Nobody's Son: A Memoir. HighBridge, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Mark Slouka. Nobody's Son: A Memoir. Unabridged HighBridge, 2016.
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August 29, 2016
Madness, war, persecution, and suburban anomie warp a family in this sometimes grim, sometimes luminous memoir. Novelist Slouka (Brewster) is the son of Czechs who survived wartime German occupation, then fled the Communist regime to settle in the U.S., where they languished in the cultural wasteland of their Bethlehem, Pa., subdivision. Slouka’s parents’ epically bad marriage was dominated by the deepening mental illness of his mother, Olga, which featured paranoid delusions, shrieking rages over trivialities, and worse. Slouka foregrounds his claustrophobic relationship with Olga as it shifted from sunny warmth to hurricane-strength hatred and then, after decades, to a distance that gives insight into her polarities. (He suggests that she was molested by her father in her youth.) Slouka’s reminiscences of his childhood are vivid and novelistic, but sometimes they become bogged down in ruminations on the fallibility of memory and middle-class American family dysfunctions he witnessed. The book shines when he imagines his parents’ more compelling travails in the 1940s, supplemented by his own travel to Czechoslovakia in the 1970s, where he discovered a hidden romance that’s the key to Olga’s character. In the end, he manages to recover deep personal meaning from tragic history. Photos.
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