Marc Straus- One-Legged Mongoose: Secrets, Legacies, and Coming of Age in 1950s New York
Set in 1950s New York in the shadow of the execution of the Rosenbergs, the memoir documents two pivotal years of Straus’s childhood on Long Island, beginning with him being forced by his parents to leave public school and commute four hours a day to a Yeshiva in Queens where the kids studied the Talmud—in the original Aramaic—for half a day five days a week and fought with words, not fists. But it was fists that Straus was used to after years of fighting off bigger kids who harassed his younger, sensitive, bully-magnet brother. And it was fists that he was used to from home.
An unflinching…
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