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My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement by Alix Dobkin

mkat303's review

I feel like I can't really give this book a star rating, because I didn't really finish it--I merely skimmed ahead and read bits here and there. I really liked the first half of it--Dobkin's story of growing up in a Communist family and then joining the CP herself (against her family's wishes) as a teenager. However, since I'm not that interested in the folk music scene she was a part of, I got a bit bored. Got more interesting for me as Dobkin discovered radical feminism and the CR groups of the time. Since this is due back at the library this week, I felt I had to rush to finish it.