Review: Excellent memoir
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 26, 2013
"Kvetch: One Bitch of a Life" by Greta Beigel is an impressive and insightful memoir.Born into a Jewish family in the poorer parts of apartheid Johannesburg little Greta's talent for the piano is used by her mother to compensate for other riches. Her emotional, professional and amorous development is well portrayed, with humour and sadness, reflection and anger.There are some shocking revelations, such as incestuous molestation and other personal tragedies but there is also a lot to laugh and smile about.I enjoyed the memoir for its insight into a world that I knew nothing of, the world of Jews in an apartheid-times South Africa and the life of a concert pianist.There is much to enjoy, a great memoir.