The autobiographical chronicles of an unusual coming-of-age. Sally Belfrage describes growing up during the1950s, feeling like an outsider despite the blue-eyed, blond-haired appearances that might have made her the stereotypical all-American girl. As a gentile in a largely Jewish school, and the daughter of the editor of the leftist paper "National Guardian," Belfrage "strove to be as normal as Velveeta Cheese" (Washington Post Book World) but met with the A-bomb, the Rosenberg trial, and McCarthyism instead.
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The autobiographical chronicles of an unusual coming-of-age. Sally Belfrage describes growing up during the1950s, feeling like an outsider despite the blue-eyed, blond-haired appearances that might have made her the stereotypical all-American girl. As a gentile in a largely Jewish school, and the daughter of the editor of the leftist paper "National Guardian," Belfrage "strove to be as normal as Velveeta Cheese" (Washington Post Book World) but met with the A-bomb, the Rosenberg trial, and McCarthyism instead.
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