![]() ![]() ![]() After reading this memoir, I realized that Penny’s eventual move to Hollywood to work alongside Garry and Ronny was her way of writing her own happy ending. According to Penny, my grandparents, Tony and Marjorie, were not the best parents, and were miserable in their marriage, too. The most unjust thing that happened to Penny growing up was that her sensitive-and-kind-older brother Garry and her beautiful-and-smart-older sister Ronny both went to Northwestern University, and left Penny alone at home with their parents. “My Mother Was Nuts” is the story of Penny’s life, which comes with a heavier and much darker perspective than Garry’s own more joyful tale from the Bronx to Hollywood. So I found this book a pleasure to read because it was not a project that I had anguished over. While for 35 years I wrote nearly ever day with her big brother, my dad, I only wrote speeches and magazine articles with Penny occasionally. Her memoir “My Mother Was Nuts” was published in 2012 and one of the things I love about this book is that I had nothing whatsoever to do with it. For most of my life people have mistaken Penny Marshall for my mother or my sister, but she is my aunt. ![]()
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