Dumbfounded: Big Money. Big Hair. Big Problems. Or Why Having It All Isn't for Sissies.
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Publication Year
2009
ISBN
9780307405432
Pages
301 pages
Genre
memoir
Format
full length
Item Type
Nonfiction
Annotation
The author describes growing up under the care of his grandmother after his mother left him for Italy and her fourth husband, and his struggle to fit into the genteel world of Upper East Side Manhattan and his eccentric and dysfunctional family.
Grade Level
9-12
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; LGBTQ (Gender and Sexuality); Legal guardianship; Kinship care; Gay/Lesbian; grandparents raising grandchild; gay; gay teenager; gay adult
Main Character
male adult
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
grandmother and grandfather
LGBTQ+
gay male
Awards
The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection
Keywords
privileged childhood; Jewish family; New York; cross-dressing; private schools; child abandonment
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Rothschild, Matt, "Dumbfounded: Big Money. Big Hair. Big Problems. Or Why Having It All Isn't for Sissies." (2009). Diverse Families. 1398.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1398