Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author
of The Terror Dream, Stiffed, and Backlash, which won the National
Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A former reporter for the
Wall Street Journal, she has written for the New Yorker, the New
York Times, Harper's, and the Baffler, among other
publications.
Laurel Lefkow is an accomplished radio actress and winner of
several AudioFile Earphones Awards for audiobook narration. Her
many theater credits include Look Back in Anger, Little Foxes, The
Heiress, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Boy Next Door. On
television she can be seen in A Class Act, Small Metal Jacket, and
The Perfect Family.
In the Darkroom is a compelling, lyrical, and candid exploration of
identity, gender, and the intensely complex relationship between a
transgendered father and her daughter. More than memoir, or
biography, it's a detective story with two unforgettable
characters...[and] a landmark achievement in which Faludi uses her
well-honed journalistic talents to tell the most intimate story she
could possibly tell, her father's journey into womanhood.-- "Kirkus
Reviews' Judges' Statement"
A gripping and honest personal journey.-- "Entertainment
Weekly"
A mash-up of genres and themes about family secrets, masculinity
and femininity, feminism, violence, the Holocaust, taking revenge.
Knitting it all together are questions of identity: Who-or
what-makes us who and what we are? How immutable is the end
result?-- "Elle"
A remarkable story containing a set of parallel motifs that seem
too absurdly perfect to be credible.-- "Slate"
A wrought and multi-layered memoir...Powerful and absorbing.--
"Publishers Weekly (starred review)"
An absolute stunner of a memoir-probing, steel-nerved, moving in
ways you'd never expect.-- "New York Times"
Astonishing, unique...should be essential reading.-- "Irish
Independent (Dublin)"
Extraordinary. Part riveting family memoir, part revelatory
Holocaust history, but most of all a profound meditation on human
identity.-- "National Book Review"
In this riveting book...Ms. Faludi unfolds her father's story like
the plot of a detective novel.-- "Wall Street Journal"
Moving and penetrating...A gripping exploration of sexual,
national, and ethnic identity.-- "Kirkus Reviews (starred
review)"
Narrator Laurel Lefkow shines most brightly when recounting the
most difficult moments of Susan Faludi's life... Lefkow captures
moments of fragility and nuance...[and] ably handles the passages
of exposition, giving extensive background on gender identity,
anti-Semitism, and the Jewish experience in Europe during WWII.
This immersive story about a father and daughter illuminates so
much more.-- "AudioFile"
Penetrating and lucid...Faludi's rich, arresting, and ultimately
generous investigation of her father.-- "New York Times Book Review
"
Remarkable, moving, and courageous.-- "Guardian (London)"
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