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sibling survivalries

Is There Something Extra-Special -- And Extra-Stressful -- Between Sisters?

Much has been made about Margaret "Peggy" Seltzer, the writer whose gang violence memoir, Love and Consequences, turned out to be a fabrication. But, the New York Times asks today, what of Cyndi Hoffman, Peggy's older sister? Hoffman is the one who turned "tattletale" and blew the whistle on Peggy. Her own sister. "We have powerful expectations of loyalty from a sister," Marcia Millman, sociology professor and author of The Perfect Sister: What Draws Us Together, What Drives Us Apart tells the Times. "But along with the idealized image of sisters, that they are always close, there is a stereotype that sisters are very competitive. It's the two extremes." They say blood is thicker than water, but is the truth thicker than blood? More »

1:00 PM on Tue Mar 18 2008
By Dodai
5,477 views, 172 comments

Latest by lola82: Dude, my big sister ratted my ass out for shit I didn't even do when we lived together...we tolerate each other know. The Unabomber's brother "ratted" him out. Thank jesus. Would I rat her out over a book? I dunno. Guess it more »

no love, just consequences

Female Gang-Banging Memoirist Is More Fiction Than Fact

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. More »

9:30 AM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Jessica
9,188 views, 188 comments

Latest by IamnotStarJones: @beatrice3000: I am so with you on Random Family. Nicole LeBlanc is a genuis, alright. [alumnae.smith.edu] more »