Bullies by Alex Abramovich7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Detroit Hustle: A Memoir of Love, Life & Home. VERDICT This essential memoir, which could have been twice as long and remained as fascinating, is recommended for general readers. Or, were the boys simply mean to each other? This question is raised early but never returned to, nor answered, and this leaves a (perhaps deliberate) sense of dissatisfaction long after the last page has been read. An unanswered question in the book is whether Trevor was really the bully Abramovich remembers him as being, or if Abramovich was himself the oppressor. Through Trevor, Abramovich gets to know members of the club and begins to investigate a city where he will eventually live. It turns out that his tormentor, Trevor, is now president of an Oakland-based motorcycle club called the East Bay Rats. On a whim, the author gets in touch with a classmate who used to bully him in elementary school. ![]() Thompson’s Hell’s Angels, this debut memoir by journalist Abramovich provides readers with a wonderful and compact history of Oakland. MEMOIR In some aspects a 21st-century successor to Hunter S. It is a book destined to become a modern classic. In his quest to find himself, the author explores what it means to remember, thus questioning the very nature of memoir writing. Peter Selgin's The Inventors, which is the outlier in this bunch, is also in its own way very American-a major theme is reinvention. cities: Oakland, Detroit, and Los Angeles (and environs). This month, three of our four memoirs focus on, among other things, iconic U.S. ![]()
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