- Paperback: 264 pages
- Publisher: Banks Channel Books (Mar 1 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1889199109
- ISBN-13: 978-1889199108
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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From Library Journal
Bache (Safe Passage, LJ 9/1/88) brings a new twist to the classic tale of teenage rebellion. In the tumultuous years of the 1960s, Beryl longs for a normal family. Instead, she finds herself in a house churning with liberal ideas, a house she dreams of escaping. Her revolutionary mother in particular is a constant source of embarrassment. Beryl's liberation finally occurs when she enters the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Upon arrival, however, she discovers ugly rot beneath the veneer of Southern hospitality; the blatant racism and religious intolerance are impossible to ignore. Beryl tries her hardest to stay neutral, even after she falls for the handicapped David, who hangs out with the campus radicals, yet she soon realizes that even an unwilling daughter must sometimes follow in her mother's footsteps. Though at times the story drifts, Bache has created a realistic teenager in Beryl, a character filled with contradictions and searching for acceptance. Recommended.?Erin Cassin, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
From Booklist
As a desperate act of rebellion against her mother's very public social revolutionary activities and civil disobedience, Beryl Rosinsky enrolls at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--that is, in 1963, in the heart of the segregated South. Beset by southern gentility and narrowness and a host of other paradoxes, the Jewish daughter of--besides the activist mother--a blacklisted former architect attempts to fit in by aping the campus' coquettish coed look. She also studies rigorously, falls in love with a young man lamed by polio, and learns about the strength of bonds between women--all during her freshman year, her first out of her parents' home. Set against a backdrop of American social protest, Bache's coming-of-age novel, with ethnic roots felt through the pull of family dynamics, is one of feminist Spinsters Ink's strongest offerings to date. It should please many. Whitney Scott
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A lively look back at the '60s,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Activist's Daughter (Paperback)
Anyone who lived through the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement in the early '60s or wants to know what it was like -- or who remembers (or wonders) about the rules college women had to endure (and college men didn't), will enjoy this lively, lighthearted novel that is also full of timely issues. Beryl Rosinsky thinks she's going to escape her civil-rights-activist mother when she runs away to college in the South, but instead she's forced to come to terms with exactly the kinds of prejudices and biases her mother is fighting.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Straightforward, honest story,
This review is from: The Activist's Daughter (Paperback)
Ellyn Bache serves up an interesting tale of relationships and identity in The Activist's Daughter. Living in bustling, Kennedy-era Washington, D.C., the Rosinsky family would appear to blend in well with their surroundings, if not for father Leonard's despondance over his reputation and career being destroyed after the McCarthy trials and mother Leah's determination to single-handedly help every worthy civil rights cause in the nation. Embarassed and angered by her mother's attention toward other people (and lack thereof toward her own family), seventeen-year-old Beryl wishes to break altogether from the activist's shadow. The best answer appears to be enrolling in an out-of-state college--North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which in 1963 was more likely a different country.The Activist's Daughter is straightforward storytelling and a good recommendation for teenage readers interested in segregation and the Civil Rights Era. Though I would have liked to have seen more interaction between Beryl and her mother (who disappears mid-story and seems to pop up when convenient), Bache compensates for this strong conflict by keeping Leah in spirit, as seen in Beryl as watch her grow. Anyone frustrated with what television season has to offer in terms of "strong women" should pick us this book instead.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Straightforward, honest story,
By "kathrynlively" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Activist's Daughter (Paperback)
Ellyn Bache serves up an interesting tale of relationships and identity in The Activist's Daughter. Living in bustling, Kennedy-era Washington, D.C., the Rosinsky family would appear to blend in well with their surroundings, if not for father Leonard's despondance over his reputation and career being destroyed after the McCarthy trials and mother Leah's determination to single-handedly help every worthy civil rights cause in the nation. Embarassed and angered by her mother's attention toward other people (and lack thereof toward her own family), seventeen-year-old Beryl wishes to break altogether from the activist's shadow. The best answer appears to be enrolling in an out-of-state college--North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which in 1963 was more likely a different country.The Activist's Daughter is straightforward storytelling and a good recommendation for teenage readers interested in segregation and the Civil Rights Era. Though I would have liked to have seen more interaction between Beryl and her mother (who disappears mid-story and seems to pop up when convenient), Bache compensates for this strong conflict by keeping Leah in spirit, as seen in Beryl as watch her grow. Anyone frustrated with what television season has to offer in terms of "strong women" should pick us this book instead. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A lively look back at the '60s,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Activist's Daughter (Paperback)
Anyone who lived through the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement in the early '60s or wants to know what it was like -- or who remembers (or wonders) about the rules college women had to endure (and college men didn't), will enjoy this lively, lighthearted novel that is also full of timely issues. Beryl Rosinsky thinks she's going to escape her civil-rights-activist mother when she runs away to college in the South, but instead she's forced to come to terms with exactly the kinds of prejudices and biases her mother is fighting.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A different "Coming of age" slant,
By Paul Woodbury - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Activist's Daughter (Paperback)
Ellen nailed this one. It's a terrific story. I found it hard to believe I wasn't reading a non-fiction memoir(and in many respects it was that). As always, her writing is crisp and the story flows nicely. I especially liked how she was so true to history, to the time and place as it was. This is one I will gift to our 18 year-old granddaughter who is off to college this fall.
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