A riveting coming-of-age narrative that provides a look into the life of a brilliant yet mischievous young girl who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area also gives an inside look at the Hippie culture of the 60s. Jacqueline Mendelson presents her memoir, “Natural Born Guilt: My Tragicomedy: Happy to Hippie to Hooked.”
Mendelson tells the tale of her multigenerational family's complicated love and relationships. She also shares the life choices she took and their severe repercussions and her strength and bravery to alter her life's path. In the 1960s, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury was the epicenter of the Hippie movement, and Jackie candidly depicts life in the neighborhood beyond tie-dyed clothes and love beads. Reading and feeling the incoming train wreck is difficult but will make readers look forward to reading the rest of her journey. The book is highly regarded and has received a 5/5 rating on Amazon. It also garnered high praise from a bestselling author.
“Natural Born Guilt” was reviewed by David Dalton, a New York Times bestselling author, founding editor of Rolling Stone Magazine, and author of 24 books, including biographies of James Dean, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Sid Vicious, and Andy Warhol. In his review, Dalton writes:
The relentless narrative drive pulls you into her hair-raising experiences with such immediacy you are breathlessly transported right into the middle of endless risky business. Her vulnerability is both alarming and endearing and her ability to laugh at the ongoing crazy dilemmas she finds herself in is what makes this book not just a cautionary tale but turns the deeper hurts she experiences into unexpected self-reflection. “Natural Born Guilt” is unputdownable, especially the last four chapters which read like a Scorsese action movie. The whole idea of a “nice Jewish girl” getting into deeper and deeper trouble leaves the reader holding their breath as to what could possibly happen next.
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Natural Born Guilt: My Tragicomedy: Happy to Hippie to Hooked
Author: Jacqueline Mendelson
Publisher: Your Online Publicist
Published Date: January 2022
Book Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
About the Author:
Jacqueline Mendelson is a native San Franciscan. Her family migrated to the suburbs of the San Mateo Peninsula (Bay Area “bedroom community”), where she lived until she turned 18 years old.
She attended the San Francisco Art Institute after graduating high school. She embraced the Cultural Revolution by living in the Haight Ashbury, hanging out in Golden Gate Park, attending every Fillmore and Avalon Ballroom concert imaginable, and demonstrating against the war in Viet Nam.
Jacqueline “grew up” and established a career that covered a span of more than 30 years as a Senior Executive of several charitable organizations and foundations.
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