Societys child my autobiography analysis

This is the story of a young girl from a family where her father was blacklisted during the McCarthy era forcing him to find a new job and move his family....

Because of the song's first-person perspective, and because of her age, many assumed that 'Society's Child' was based on events in her own life.

Book Review: “Society’s Child” by Janis Ian

This is another review of another book I picked up a couple week’s ago at a used book store for $5 – Society’s Child: my autobiography by Janis Ian.

Now here’s a strange little twist…I follow Janis on Facebook, but I couldn’t tell you why or when I started. I just do. I don’t own any of her albums, nor have I ever followed her career.

The book contains the most sickening account of child abuse that I have ever come across, as well as many examples of the paranoid fear of socialists.

In Society's Child, Ian shares with readers what it felt like to move in and out of the public eye.

This is the story of a young girl from a family where her father was blacklisted during the McCarthy era forcing him to find a new job and move his family.

"Janis Ian is at once larger-than-life and excruciatingly human.

Society's Child (Tarcher/Penguin) is the hugely readable autobiography of an artist who has lived through success and crushing hardship but knows that 'you can'.

She’s just been kinda there…and I do enjoy her posts. So, when I saw this book, I guessed it was about time I got to know her a little better.

You know the story…little Jewish girl from New York makes it big and leads a fabulous, glamorous life filled with the very best of everything?

Well, this ain’t that story! This is the story of a young girl from a family where her father was blacklisted during the McCarthy era forcing him to find a new job and move his family every two years. It’s the story of an a