Planted firmly between the young Ted Solotaroff and his entry into
the wider world was Ben Solotaroff -- as hard a father to placate,
comprehend, and, finally, defy as could be found in the annals of
the American memoir. Tough, driven, shrewd, and impossibly
overbearing, this self-made man headed off each morning to the
Standard Plate Glass Company of Elizabeth, New Jersey, the way
George Patton headed off to battle.
Against this formidable adversary stood his mother, Rose,
product of the more cultivated Weisses of Cream Ridge, New Jersey,
and the Upper West Side. Their marriage was both stormy and
sensual, and young Ted came early to understand himself as divided
between the "Little Benny" who took after his contentious father
and "the Weiss boy" of his mother's affections. His ongoing
struggle for self-definition was played out at the family dinner
table, classrooms, gyms and baseball fields, and the inner reaches
of his psyche.
Truth Comes in Blows takes the classic themes of struggling to
maturity and renews them with unsparing intelligence and
crystalline particulars. Volumes' worth of insight into what it
means to be a man, a son, a Jew, and an American are distilled in
its pages into a resonant story of family conflict and hard-won
reconciliation.
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