Wednesday, March 31, 2021

In My TBR Stack:

I Did It My Ways: An 86-Year-Old Standup Comedian's Lifelong Journey from Prudish Bostonian to Scandalous Parisienne
by D'yan Forest with Stephen Clarke
pAf
Trade Paperback


From the author's website:



D'yan Forest has always done things her way — or her ways, because she's lived a dozen different lives.

She's been a desperate Boston housewife, a New York nightclub singer and a Paris swinger.

She's been the only Jewish girl in a Christian choir and the female pianist in a transvestite cabaret.

She had day jobs teaching basketball, piano, and sex education.

She dated Paris's second-ever female bus driver, a transsexual rock guitarist, and a defrocked nun.

She also managed to get German friends to visit Nazi concentration camps, on her personal quest to understand why her European relatives were massacred.

At 86, D'yan is still a working standup comedian and musician, but she's much, much more than that, as this hilarious but heartfelt memoir reveals...



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