Summary of Jennifer Pastiloff's On Being Human

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview: #1 The stories that live inside of us, and the memories that sustain us, can also haunt us. My mother, who was eighteen years old when she started working in Center City in Philadelphia, at Rohm and Haas, a chemical manufacturer, had bought all new clothes for the job. But her mother took a scissors and sliced through all of them in her closet.

#2 My mother grew up in a brick row house in South Philadelphia on Reese Street. Her mother, Marion, was a hatcheck girl at a nightclub called Big Bill’s. She had dates with all those men while her husband was away in the navy.

#3 I was always fascinated with my mother’s relationship with her mother. I wanted to know why they had to go visit her grandmother, and why my mother still sent her presents.

#4 I was curious about my great-grandmother Rose. In my mom’s stories, she was always kind and loving, but her daughter, my grandmother, was vicious and mean. I thought we were simply extensions of our parents.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Feb 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669353638

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Insights on Jennifer Pastiloff's On Being Human

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 23

Insights from Chapter 24

Insights from Chapter 25

Insights from Chapter 26

Insights from Chapter 27

Insights from Chapter 28

Insights from Chapter 29

Insights from Chapter 30

Insights from Chapter 31

Insights from Chapter 32

Insights from Chapter 33

Insights from Chapter 34

Insights from Chapter 35

Insights from Chapter 36

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The stories that live inside of us, and the memories that sustain us, can also haunt us. My mother, who was eighteen years old when she started working in Center City in Philadelphia, at Rohm and Haas, a chemical manufacturer, had bought all new clothes for the job. But her mother took a scissors and sliced through all of them in her closet.

#2

My mother grew up in a brick row house in South Philadelphia on Reese Street. Her mother, Marion, was a hatcheck girl at a nightclub called Big Bill’s. She had dates with all those men while her husband was away in the navy.

#3

I was always fascinated with my mother’s relationship with her mother. I wanted to know why they had to go visit her grandmother, and why my mother still sent her presents.

#4

I was curious about my great-grandmother Rose. In my mom’s stories, she was always kind and loving, but her daughter, my grandmother, was vicious and mean. I thought we were simply extensions of our parents.

#5

I have always had stories I told myself and my mom did, too. Her greatest one was I can’t remember, which was her battle cry. She couldn’t remember her depression, and her brain split and didn’t allow it.

#6

My mother was seventeen when she met my twenty-year-old father on the 5th Street trolley car in Philadelphia in 1966. They got married when she was twenty, and my father had to go into the hospital for back surgery. She stayed with his parents while he was in the hospital.

#7

We all have stories that we tell ourselves that are not true. We