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able hilarity his attendance at one pri-
vate school after another as• well as his
mostly short-lived friendships.
On a more serious note, he discuss-
umbfounded: Big Money. Big es his confused sexual identity, first
Hair. Big Problems. Or Why
manifested in the fifth grade when
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he began to wear his grandmother's
(Crown Publishing; $23.95), a remark- dresses. This problem continued
able memoir by 27-year-old Matt
when he went to boarding school and
Rothschild, tells the story of his life
roomed with "the best-looking guy
from age 7 to 19. He
I'd ever seen." Their
lived with his mater-
interaction, notes the
nal grandparents,
author, was "one more
Howard and Sophie
stop on the road t _ o
Dumbfounded homosexuality."
Rothschild, and their
servants in a large
When Rothschild
duplex apartment on
was 10, his mother
Fifth Avenue, oppo-
came to New York.
site the Metropolitan
Despite overhearing
Museum of Art. They
her talk about want-
were the only Jews in
ing an abortion when
the building.
she learned she was
Rothschild's -
pregnant with him, he
grandfather came to
agreed to accompany
is
America from Europe
her back to Italy to
before World War
Matt Rothschild
meet her current hus-
II. He was a mem-
band and his daugh-
ber of the wealthy
ter. The trip turned
Rothschild family. Now retired, he had out to be a disaster, but Rothschild's.
worked as a diplomat. He loved to tell
description of it is comically light-
stories and .had "refined taste' The
hearted.
author's grandmother, born and raised
In a particularly sidesplitting scene,
in New York, was the feisty, alcoholic
Rothschild and his grandmother
daughter of a rich merchant.
attend a seder at the home of her
As Rothschild explains, hisgrindfa- nephew and his. Jewish-convert wife.
ther had "old money;' and his grand-
Everything is done in accordance with
mother had "new money:' Neither was Judaism for Dummies..
observant, nor did Matt discover they
Rothschild chose to go to Rollins
were Jewish until he was in second
College in Winter Park, Fla., because his
grade. What this meant to him was
one Jewish friend from boarding school
that he did not receive Christmas gifts had decided to enroll there. They took a
from Santa Claus. Beyond that, there
course on Jewish life, which stimulated
was little evidence of the family's
him to become observant. His rule-
Jewish identity.
books were The Complete Idiot's Guide to
This somewhat quirky household
Understanding-Judaism and Kosher Sex.
came about because Rothschild's
Rothschild — grown and disinher-
mother left him with her aging par-
ited from the family fortune — now
ents when she took off for Europe
lives in Orlando, Fla., where he is a
after her fourth marriage. She called
high school English and journalism
home infrequently, and Rothschild
teacher.
had little or no contact with her. His
This book sensitively and comically
father, one of his mother's earlier hus- deals with the life of a young person
bands, was out of the picture, having
as he grows up in a dysfunctional
left for California without even know-
family. Rothschild has impressively
ing that his soon-to-be-ex-wife was
combined authenticity, whimsical wit,
pregnant.
satire and levity to produce a spar-
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