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Ms. Woff's white family grew up in a Seattle poor black neighborhood with a single father. The time period covered in the memoir goes up to her fourteenth year. While the first part of the book focuses on her being the minority and dealing with prejudice, the remainder of the work mostly focuses on the author's adventure attending an elite school where everyone else is rich and white. Man, talk about culture shock. Her ghetto habits are in stark contrast to her new environment.

What the author successfully does is take stressful or sad moments and tells them in a very funny manner. I smiled a great deal while reading her memoir and occasionally laughed out loud. The book is peppered with some harsh language and will likely make politically-correct-sensitive readers hyperventilate. Ms. Wolff's stories include such things as daycare Hell, poverty, fistfights, divorce, her dad's various girlfriends, attending a wedding, skiing, music lessons, playing basketball and competitive swimming, and a Satanic sleepover. All of the episodes are told in a funny manner except for the last chapter which is tender ending and involves her dad participating in a 2.7-mile swim across a lake.

Despite many stressful conditions that would've certainly sent me on a tri-state killing spree, Ms. Wolff's work is ultimate written with deep affection for her family. The reader is exposed to the challenges of cultural assimilation and the stresses of being poor. However, I can't stress enough that you will learn stuff while laughing your keister off.


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I'm Down A Memoir Mishna Wolff 9780312378554 Books Reviews

My African-American work friend told me that I would enjoy this book. I love to read. We are Flight Attendants so we need things to read during our down time. I will say this. I am a 48 year old white man. This book had me laughing out loud! It is absolutely hilarious! I would recommend this book to ANYBODY! The cover picture alone should tell you that this book has lots of twists and turns. LOVED it!!!!!!!!!!
What a great book. I love memoirs, and this one was excellent. It was well written and so entertaining. I just got lost in it! The author is hilarious and brilliant. I loved reading about her struggles and triumphs growing up. Everybody has them. No matter their race or economic status. I would love to read about her life after this.
This was an excellent book to read for our book club because there are a lot of sensitive topics covered that lead to good discussion. I'm giving it 3/5 stars because that was the average rating our group decided on. Some in our group felt that the author portrayed people of color as caricatures whose absurdity was called on for comical amusement, which made readers uncomfortable. Yet others felt that the descriptions came from the brutal honesty of lived childhood experiences presented unfiltered, and described the lack of political correctness as refreshing. Overall the book hit the middle of the road in quality of writing and was an entertaining read (she is a comedian after all).
Just read for the second time and loved it just as much as the first. It’s a freaking hysterical memoir. Good for middle school through adult; white, black or Asian; rich or poor. Reminded me of my days going to middle school in the same neighborhood. My only complaint is not to have found anything else she has written since because she has a great comic voice. A copy of this book now lives on the memoir bookshelf of one of the Language Arts teachers teaching the “IPP kids” (then APP, now HCC) at Washington Middle School. I hope some of the rich white kids learn a thing or two from your experiences. Well done!
Cappin! Was that a thing outside the Midwest projects in the mid-80s? IDK because by the time I ran out of white-bread foster parents in the rural midwest I rejoined "the ghetto" in early 90s TX where, "I capped your ass" became, "I rest it". Both terms meant the same thing though....Someone laid a tasty burn right on your big fat head (that's my ghetto-white-girl-midwesterner-interpretation. If you grew up in the midwest all the best things are "tasty").
Anyway, it's nice to hear someone put in print that it's hard to be a white girl in poor black neighborhood. It's hard to be a poor white girl in a poor white neighborhood too (and vice-versa). But sometimes it's harder being a grown woman who grew up in and worked in poor neighborhoods, particularly poor black neighborhoods to assimilate with "Proper" speaking people. Folks tease me about how my voice changes sometimes. Honestly, I'd rather just speak than worry about whether or not I sound like Mary Poppins. Are perfect Southern Sweetie. I pull off Southern Sweetie really well (most days) because I have to for my job as badass, genteel apartment maintenance manager.
Excellent memoir . If you get a chance, listen to it on audio ,as read by the author . She is perfect as the "voice" of her dad .
Mishna grew up in an odd sort of situation she was White, as was her whole family, yet her dad was convinced he was Black. She grew up in a Black neighborhood and went to schools with majority of Black kids . Her Dad was constantly trying to teach her how to fit into this scenario, which she never felt she did .
Her parents divorced when she was young, so at one point, she went to live with her mom, and her mom enrolled her into a "gifted" school program, since she was really smart . She began trying to fit in with the richer group of White kids , and seemed to feel a bit out of the loop in that group too. She didn't want them to know she lived in such a poor neighborhood, and didn't get to do the things most of the other kids did .
So, somehow, throughout all this, she learned to conform and fit into her own space , and possibly feel more comfortable , over time, living in both worlds .
The book is absolutely hilarious ,so she definitely kept a sense of humor about her situation . At the end, you learn that no one has a perfect life , no matter what Race you are or what neighborhood you live in . Everyone has obstacles to overcome in life, and we all need to learn to carve out our own space in the world, just as the author did.
A really GOOD book !
Ms. Woff's white family grew up in a Seattle poor black neighborhood with a single father. The time period covered in the memoir goes up to her fourteenth year. While the first part of the book focuses on her being the minority and dealing with prejudice, the remainder of the work mostly focuses on the author's adventure attending an elite school where everyone else is rich and white. Man, talk about culture shock. Her ghetto habits are in stark contrast to her new environment.

What the author successfully does is take stressful or sad moments and tells them in a very funny manner. I smiled a great deal while reading her memoir and occasionally laughed out loud. The book is peppered with some harsh language and will likely make politically-correct-sensitive readers hyperventilate. Ms. Wolff's stories include such things as daycare Hell, poverty, fistfights, divorce, her dad's various girlfriends, attending a wedding, skiing, music lessons, playing basketball and competitive swimming, and a Satanic sleepover. All of the episodes are told in a funny manner except for the last chapter which is tender ending and involves her dad participating in a 2.7-mile swim across a lake.

Despite many stressful conditions that would've certainly sent me on a tri-state killing spree, Ms. Wolff's work is ultimate written with deep affection for her family. The reader is exposed to the challenges of cultural assimilation and the stresses of being poor. However, I can't stress enough that you will learn stuff while laughing your keister off.