In those beginning pages he also talked about his growing up years when his parents' divorce and his mom moved to Oregon so she could be in a Lesbian relationship with more freedom.
And again, in those first few chapters he talked about buffalo in the Bronx zoo and about the Sioux Indians in South Dakota having a Ghost Dance that they performed which would prove to help defeat the white man.
Later in the book he talked about a relative Ruth, who marched on Washington in the days of Martin Luther King.
While all of these things are interesting, I really have no idea why they are all in the same book. I obviously missed some point the author was trying to make. The most interesting parts of the book were about the author's growing up years, but they came few and far between the rest of the stories in the book.
Frankly, I found myself by about page 200 reading the book like I was reading a list of statistics. I had promised myself that I would stick the book out and read it to the end, but when I realized I wasn't retaining anything because I was reading it like I was reading a bunch of numbers on a page, I decided it was OK to give up on the book.
So my apologies to the author: Sorry, I didn't get it. Hopefully there will be other readers that do.
Rating: 3 / 10
ISBN: 9780316199841
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Edition: Advanced Reading Copy