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‘My Brother My Sister,’ by Molly Haskell

Started by Amelia Pond, September 16, 2013, 12:11:32 PM

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Amelia Pond

September 16, 2013, 12:11:32 PM
'My Brother My Sister,' by Molly Haskell
NOELLE HOWEY, The New York Times, September 13, 2013

Read Molly Haskell's reappraisal of "Gone With the Wind" in her 2009 book "Frankly, My Dear," and you will never look at Scarlett O'Hara in quite the same way. She deftly deconstructs that iconic Southern coquette and reveals her to be an ur-feminist of surprising complexity. As a reviewer and critic, Haskell has skillfully dissected celluloid characters, mining one-dimensional archetypes for insights. However, real people (herself included) prove to be more elusive targets in her new memoir, "My Brother My Sister." As a result, the book — a chronicle of her brother's transformation from male to female — is more of a surface skim than one might expect. Although much is revealed, little is revelatory.
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