In One Era and Out the Other: Essays on Contemporary Life
Patricia Prattis Jennings, 2013
CreateSpace
302 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780615849904
Summary
From former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette contributor turned essayist comes this wide-ranging collection in which the author shares her views on the way life is now, sprinkled with reminiscences about the last several decades. Few other writers can glide so easily from fashion to football to fiction without missing a beat.
Covering a wide range of topics including culture, technology, politics, books, and music, Jennings expresses her views on everything from what's happened to air travel to the search for a perfect hairstylist.
Not afraid to tackle more serious topics, Jennings weighs in on racial attitudes in America and the election of Barack Obama. And when talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger lectures a black woman not to date outside her race if she can't "take the heat," Jennings shares her thoughts, as an African American woman married to a white man, not only with Dr. Laura but also with her readers.
Jennings's book will especially delight readers over thirty-five who have shared many of her experiences. Part memoir, part commentary, In One Era and Out the Other is a sophisticated and amusing chronology of anecdotes and opinions about events of the second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century and the new millennium.