March 4, 2008
Shelf Life: They'll Frey for This
Seems like it was only last week that Misha Defonseca's best-selling book, Misha: A Memoir of the Holocaust Years, was discovered to be a flight of the author's fantasy. Apparently Defonseca (real name: Monique De Wael) didn't live with a pack of wolves to escape the Nazis; nor did she walk 1,900 miles across Europe in search of her parents. She didn't kill a German soldier and she's actually not Jewish. Today we learn that Margaret B Jones's autobiography Love and Consequences: A Memoir of Hope and Survival, about her growing up with gangbangers in South Los Angeles is fiction from table of contents to index. Instead of being a half-white, half-Native American who grew up in a foster home and sold drugs for the Bloods, Jones (real name: Margaret Seltzer) is a white woman who was raised by her birth parents in Sherman Oaks and graduated from an exclusive private school in the Valley. Both women are scheduled to appear on Oprah for a severe tongue-lashing, followed by an old-fashioned book-burning. (Pictured: Defonseca and Jones – or are they?)
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