A review by leftleaning
Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully by Allen Kurzweil

2.75

A memoir and an investigation for a childhood bully - asking universal questions we all have: whatever happened to them? The author's obsessive journey spans 40 years and expands to not just finding that tormentor that whipped him when he was a kid, recreating Jesus Christ Superstar, but to a whole criminal case with fake aristocrats. In a thriller style narrative of finding the bully, the confrontation is secondary to finding the freedom and healing from the past. A personal journey of the author, yet it feels redemptive for all of us who's ever been bullied. This book is funny, honest and intriguing, read it if you know who hurt you but don't have the language and courage (yet) to confront them.