THE HOUSE ON CRASH CORNER and Other Unavoidable Calamities is about the sad, hilarious and meaningful ways we deal with the crises in our lives. You can't spell joy without the oy. True stories range from growing up in Brooklyn as the Yiddish speaking daughter of Holocaust survivors, to my work with cancer patients, to life as a mom of two young boys, to becoming a cancer patient myself.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It's hard to love a family that seems to be more concerned with gambling and showing their behind than being a family. "The House on Crash Corner" is a unique and fun memoir from Mindy Greenstein as she recalls her own abnormal, or perhaps normal home life in a house that resided on a corner that invited auto accidents. Riveting and entertaining reading on what produces a Ph. D, "The House on Crash Corner" is a memoir that should prove quite difficult to put down.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This collection of essays has a lot to say. The author's experiences as a psychologist for the prison system, and then for cancer patients, gives her a unique point of view. She shares with her readers the insights she gained from those experiences, as well as from her rather fraught early family life, in a way that gently and humorously teaches important life lessons. She approaches the irony of having counseled cancer patients and then dealing with her own cancer with humor, and uses her experience on both sides of that fence to enlighten. This book is well worth the time spent reading it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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What starts as a hilarious take on a quite possibly traumatic childhood evolves into a truly remarkable and moving commentary on a world wider than a gifted child's active imagination and an adult's journey of strength. Although a memoir of an actual person with actual parents, Greenstein as a literary character could be the love child of David Sedaris and Jonathan Safran Foer, raised by Robert Jay Lifton as Fran Drescher, the Nanny. Nevertheless, firmly grounded in reality, "The House on Crash Corner" instantly rises to the top of the genre of medical narrative. Few, if any, authors match Greenstein's wit and insight into familial, psychological, & biological dysfunction. As in gripping fiction, narrative threads weave together the dramas and traumas of major world events, interpersonal relationships, and intra-psychic musings through chapter-length vignettes. I often had to stop reading either to laugh or just absorb & metabolize Greenstein's world. More power to, and many more essays and books from, Mindy Greenstein.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Psychological, yet Personal
Life is full of unavoidable calamities; what defines a person is how they cope.
Fittingly for the Jewish daughter of "greeneh, the name for Eastern European refugees and... Read more
Fittingly for the Jewish daughter of "greeneh, the name for Eastern European refugees and... Read more
Published 12 months ago by K Gossett
I loved The House on Crash Corner
I loved this book. It is a funny, insightful memoir. Mindy writes in a breezy style and with humor about about her holocaust-survivor parents and the chaotic household that they... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Betsy
A wonderful journey
Mindy Greenstein's book conveys the essence of a modern woman's life: the work-home balancing act, the aging parents-young children balancing act, the daily crises we all face and... Read more
Published 12 months ago by kab
A Triumph
The House on Crash Corner performs an amazing feat. It explores some of the darkest sides of human life, from the Holocaust to insanity to cancer. Read more
Published 13 months ago by John Leubsdorf
You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll plotz.
If Woody Allan and Anna Quindlan spawned a child, it might come out sounding like Mindy Greenstein: wry humor mixed with wise insights. Read more
Published 13 months ago by viv's daughter
Fabulous memoir
This is a wonderful and wonderfully written memoir that will teach you about the "oy" in "joy." It is a heartfelt story about a Ph. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Sharyn Wolf
Good Stuff
Dr. Mindy, as she is affectionately known by, uh, me, is one of those people who's good at everything. Just try her some time. Skateboarding? Read more
Published 13 months ago by Colin
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