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“The phrase ‘blue plate special’ has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me,” Christensen writes. Eventually, there was divorce, a move to Arizona and her mother cooking traditional American blue-plate special meals of mashed potatoes, meatloaf, French-cut string beans. But most lawyers don’t work with the Black Panthers, as her father did, and most suburban upbringings don’t have the fervor and spark of Berkeley in the 1960s, where her family lived.Īlthough she portrays that environment with the awe and admiration she felt as a child, the book begins with something much darker: Christensen’s earliest memory, of her father striking her mother. She was the eldest of four sisters born to a lawyer father and a mother who was studying to be a psychologist. Christensen grew up in the 1960s and ‘70s in an environment that was by turns fairly average and entirely atypical.
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