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One-Legged Mongoose Audiobook Summary

It’s June 1953, and ten-year-old Marc Straus is in his mother’s car, getting sick from her cigarette smoke on his way to a Hebrew lesson. He and his younger brother, Stephen, are transferring from public school to a Yeshiva. His parents haven’t said why they’re transferring–the family isn’t religious. So all Marc knows is he’ll have to protect his brother. Stephen’s a delicate kid other kids pick on. Marc’s a street fighter who knows how to wall off the pain.

So begins One-Legged Mongoose, Marc Straus’ vivid, compelling, you-are-there memoir of two years in the life of a precocious, scrappy Jewish kid carrying a dark secret as he embarks on the journey to young manhood in 1950s New York. When school starts, Marc begins commuting four hours daily to a different world, where kids are smart like him and fight with words instead of fists, and a caring principal takes the troubled truant under his wing. Marc works at his dad’s textile store on Sundays, learning about honor and hard work from his immigrant father. At home, he faces his volatile mother.

Straus encounters Anti-Semitism in public school, in the community, and even in the Boy Scouts. And it’s the Scouts that lend the book its title–a nod to a campfire story about a half-man, half-mongoose predator that’s almost the height of a full-grown man, and that Straus and the other boys of Troop 300 are tasked with locating. But, as Straus explains, “I was willing to face it. I know all about monsters.”

Marc starts rethinking his risk-taking way of life, often sidelined by injuries to his eye, polio, and a near-fatal hit-and-run. A voracious reader, he looks to books for insights–What would Santiago do?–and comes to accept that he’s not invulnerable. Life will wound him, but the rest is up to him.

An unflinching look at child abuse and one boy’s ability to rise above it, One-Legged Mongoose reminds us of the bonds between siblings and the power of family secrets.

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One-Legged Mongoose Audiobook Narrator

Scott Wallace is the narrator of One-Legged Mongoose audiobook that was written by Marc J. Straus

About the Author(s) of One-Legged Mongoose

Marc J. Straus is the author of One-Legged Mongoose

One-Legged Mongoose Full Details

Narrator Scott Wallace
Length 7 hours 41 minutes
Author Marc J. Straus
Category
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Release date March 29, 2024
ISBN 9798200835805

Subjects

The publisher of the One-Legged Mongoose is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs

Additional info

The publisher of the One-Legged Mongoose is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Made for Success. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9798200835805.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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