Amazon.com In elegant, passionate prose, Rosemary L. Bray uses her personal history to persuasively defend America's much-maligned welfare system. A smart black girl from the Chicago slums didn't have much chance of going to Yale or becoming an editor at the New York Times Book Review before Aid to Families with Dependent Children helped Rosemary's selfless mother make ends meet and keep Rosemary in school. Bray's account of her progress is both inspiring and despairing, as she criticizes the welfare "reforms" that closed to others doors that were opened for her. From School Library Journal YA-Bray's memoir is a rags-to-middle-class story. Born in 1955, the author grew up in Chicago; her mother eked out an existence on welfare while her father worked sporadically, hindered and angered by segregation and taking it out on his family. Her mother spent part of her AFDC check on Catholic school tuition for her daughter; the nuns, seeing Bray's promise, pushed her on to a private, liberal high school. She persevered and blossomed, while developing an interest in the civil rights movement. She won a scholarship to Yale, where she enjoyed the intellectual stimulation provided by fellow black students. Eventually, she became an editor at the New York Times Book Review. Married to her college sweetheart and living in Harlem by then, Bray led efforts to hold her neighborhood together. She now lives in suburban New Jersey and continues to write. In a direct writing style that flows easily from point to point, she fleshes her story out and distills complexities of feeling and situations into clear prose so that readers can readily understand subtle concepts. The last chapter makes a strong statement against the 1996 welfare-reform bill that will force parents of young children to work, making them unable to give the care that, thanks to welfare, her mother was home to give her. Bray says that we will all pay the price for these neglected children.Judy McAloon, Potomac Library, Prince William County, VACopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. See all Editorial Reviews
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说实话,一开始我对这种个人回忆录持保留态度,总担心会落入自恋或矫情的窠臼。然而,这本书完全颠覆了我的预期。它最成功的地方在于,作者成功地将极其私密的个人历程,提升到了一个具有普遍性的哲学层面。那些关于身份认同、关于寻找归属感、关于如何与自己的历史和解的探讨,是每个人在某个生命阶段都会面临的命题。作者没有给出标准答案,而是以一种开放式的姿态,邀请读者一同进入这个复杂的内心迷宫进行探索。这种开放性使得阅读过程充满思辨性,读完后,我发现自己对一些困扰已久的人生选择有了新的审视角度。它不只是一本“她的故事”,更像是一面映照我们自己内心的镜子,清晰、深刻,且不容回避。
评分这本书的叙事节奏把握得简直是教科书级别的。作者似乎深谙如何将那些看似琐碎的日常片段,巧妙地编织成一张引人入胜的命运之网。读到中间部分时,我几次因为情节的突然转折而不得不停下来,平复一下呼吸。那种层层剥开真相的快感,让人欲罢不能。尤其是在描绘某个关键性的童年经历时,笔触细腻得仿佛能触摸到当时空气中的温度和湿度,情感的张力拿捏得恰到好处,既不至于过度煽情,又足以让读者感同身受。不得不说,作者的文字功底深厚,他对语言的掌控力令人叹服,许多句子反复读了好几遍,才敢继续往下看,生怕错过了一丝丝微妙的意味。这种对细节的执着和对情感深度的挖掘,使得整部作品拥有了一种罕见的厚重感,即便读完合上书本,那种久久萦绕心头的感觉依然清晰。
评分这本书给我带来的最大感受是关于“环境塑造个体”的深刻洞察。作者对于成长的背景环境的描写,细致入微,充满了强烈的地域色彩和时代烙印。你仿佛能闻到那个特定年代空气中的尘土味,感受到社会氛围带来的无形压力。她不是简单地陈述“发生了什么”,而是细致地剖析了这些外部因素是如何潜移默化地影响了一个孩子的内心世界,如何塑造了她后来的决策模式。这种对环境心理学的细腻捕捉,让很多经历过类似时代背景的读者,会产生一种强烈的“被理解”的共鸣。它让人反思,我们自己所谓的“天性”,究竟有多少是源于我们选择的,又有多少是时代和出身强加于我们的印记。
评分从文学性的角度来看,作者的风格变化多端,令人耳目一新。有时,她的文字如同古老的史诗般庄严厚重,用词考究,句子结构复杂而富有韵律感;而转瞬之间,她又会切换到一种极其口语化、近乎私语的表达方式,仿佛我们正坐在她对面的壁炉旁,听她娓娓道来。这种叙事声线的灵活切换,极大地丰富了阅读体验,避免了长篇自传中常见的单调乏味。在描绘特定的人物群像时,作者的观察力敏锐得惊人,寥寥数语便能勾勒出人物的神态、性格与命运的底色,这些配角仿佛也拥有了独立的故事线,栩栩如生。这种对周边环境和人物的精妙刻画,极大地支撑了核心主题的重量。
评分这部回忆录最让我震撼的,是它对“真实”二字的毫不妥协。它不是那种经过美化和滤镜处理的完美人生叙事,而是勇敢地揭示了生活中的那些不堪、挣扎与自我怀疑。作者的坦诚是如此彻底,让人甚至会忍不住想,她是如何鼓起勇气将这些私密的、可能令人难堪的经历公之于众的?这种近乎残酷的诚实,反而建立了一种极强的信任感。我尤其欣赏作者处理创伤的方式——不是一味地沉溺于痛苦,而是在叙述中带着一种审视和超脱,仿佛是在和过去的自己对话,带着理解和一丝不易察觉的释然。这种成熟的处理手法,让这部作品超越了一般的个人传记,上升到了一种关于人类韧性的探讨。它提醒我们,真正的力量往往诞生于最深的脆弱之中。
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