no love, just consequences
In the biggest literary hoax since... well, last week, when that
Holocaust memoir turned out to be entirely fabricated, 33-year-old
Margaret B. Jones, whose new memoir of foster homes and gang violence,
Love and Consequences, has been revealed to be a
hoax by the
New York Times. In
Love and Consequences, Jones — actually Margaret "Peggy" Seltzer — claims to have grown up in
South Central L.A., running drugs for the Bloods and watching her foster brothers gunned down by gang members. In reality, Peggy grew up in the sheltered L.A. suburb Sherman Oaks, and attended private Episcopal academy the
Campbell Hall School in North Hollywood (
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are fellow
Campbell Hall alums). The story even has a soap opera twist: Peggy's sister, 47-year-old Cyndi Hoffman, is the one who blew the whistle on her.
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