Except for One Little Problem: Memoir of a Life in Hiding - Softcover

Denson, Joan

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9781569802120: Except for One Little Problem: Memoir of a Life in Hiding

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ISBN 10: 1569802122 ISBN 13: 9781569802120

Publisher: UNKNO, 2001

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Joan Denson was the American Dream except for one little problem: she was a lesbian. This is a memoir of the girl-next-door who faces her homosexuality and finds herself unwelcome in her surroundings.

A child during WWII, the author came of age reading The Diary of Anne Frank. The memories of oppression and suffering of the innocent so captured her imagination that she struck up a friendship with Anne Frank's father and visited Anne's annex, where she found in her desire for Anne a hidden piece of herself.

By early adulthood Denson absorbed the culture of the fifties, an era famous for its "loud events and quiet discontents." With a husband and children, she coveted suburban bliss as much as the next girl. But something was amiss. That something came in the form of a lesbian experience that led her to realize what had been missing all along.

A precursor to the "lipstick lesbian" the author, now a prominent Beverly Hills psychotherapist, recounts the struggles, joys, and humor of growing up homosexual in an era of repression. Her memoir provides a first-person account of the evolution of sexual mores over the last thirty years.

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About the Author:

Dr. Joan Denson grew up in a suburb of Chicago and graduated from Roosevelt University. She holds both a Masters Degree in Education from California State Universtiy and a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University. She earned a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at International College in Los Angeles. A successful psychotherapist, Dr. Denson specializes in marital and relationship therapy. She lives in Los Angeles.

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