One-Legged Mongoose: Secrets, Legacies, and Coming of Age in 1950s New York Audiobook by Marc J. Straus

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ID: 563709
Title: One-Legged Mongoose: Secrets, Legacies, and Coming of Age in 1950s New York
Author: Marc J. Straus
Narrator: Scott Wallace
Format: Unabridged
Length: 07:41:16
Language: English
Release date: 09-14-21
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Summary:
Its June 1953, and ten-year-old Marc Straus is in his mothers car, getting sick from her cigarette smoke on his way to a Hebrew lesson. He and his younger brother, Stephen, are transferring from public school to a Yeshiva. His parents havent said why theyre transferringthe family isnt religious. So all Marc knows is hell have to protect his brother. Stephens a delicate kid other kids pick on. Marcs a street fighter who knows how to wall off the pain.
So begins One-Legged Mongoose, Marc Straus vivid, compelling, you-are-there memoir of two years in the life of a precocious, scrappy Jewish kid carrying a dark secret as he embarks on the journey to young manhood in 1950s New York. When school starts, Marc begins commuting four hours daily to a different world, where kids are smart like him and fight with words instead of fists, and a caring principal takes the troubled truant under his wing. Marc works at his dad's textile store on Sundays, learning about honor and hard work from his immigrant father. At home, he faces his volatile mother.
Straus encounters Anti-Semitism in public school, in the community, and even in the Boy Scouts. And its the Scouts that lend the book its titlea nod to a campfire story about a half-man, half-mongoose predator thats almost the height of a full-grown man, and that Straus and the other boys of Troop 300 are tasked with locating. But, as Straus explains, I was willing to face it. I know all about monsters.
Marc starts rethinking his risk-taking way of life, often sidelined by injuries to his eye, polio, and a near-fatal hit-and-run. A voracious reader, he looks to books for insightsWhat would Santiago do?and comes to accept that hes not invulnerable. Life will wound him, but the rest is up to him.
An unflinching look at child abuse and one boys ability to rise above it, One-Legged Mongoose reminds us of the bonds between siblings and the power of family secrets.

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