Saving the world solo

by Pamela Sackett

A pithy and laugh-tickling memoir about growing up and wrestling with one's purpose, identity and coping style. The back cover description describes it well: What do you get when you mix a childhood forged in the boozy-hazed post-war partying of the 50s -- replete with Lenny Bruce recitations at age eight -- with an "adulthood" as a college-hopping educational film actress, boy-guru disciple, L.A. song-writer, night club comedienne and prison school teaching artist? You get a feeling-centric, language-obsessed Cleveland refugee who has an epiphany and decides to save the world with: a humble offering of delusions of grandeur flashbacks and forward thinking wit and wisdom formidable foibles unrelenting challenge to the resigned intransigence of the status quo run-on sentences wild stories, mostly true.