Susan Faludi on her book "In the Darkroom"

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Susan Faludi
Susan Faludi on her book "In the Darkroom"

 

Host Theresa Mitchell speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Susan Faludi about her new book "In the Darkroom," her inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga, involving her 76-year-old father – long estranged and living in Hungary – who underwent sex reassignment surgery. In the book Faludi confronts the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consuming our age. How was this new parent who claimed to be “a complete woman now” connected to the silent, explosive, and ultimately violent father she had known, the photographer who’d built his career on the alteration of images? Faludi’s struggle to come to grips with her father’s reinvented self takes her across borders – historical, political, religious, sexual – to bring her face to face with the question of the age: Is identity something you “choose,” or is it the very thing you can’t escape? - See more at: http://kboo.fm/media/52847-susan-faludi-her-book-darkroom#sthash.B2FVEot...

 

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