What critics are saying about In the Shadow of Fame
Rosanne Cash
"Sue Erikson Bloland writes with keen wisdom, and wonderful, rich detail, about her famous father, her highly accomplished mother, her family secrets, and her struggle to find her essential self in the proximity and psychic heat of their fame. Her comment in the introduction about the search for a 'meaningful non-heroic way to be' had me in tears. She defined my own personal quest in that one sentence. I wish I had read this book when I was a teenager; she could have saved me about a dozen years of therapy. Her exploration of the disconnect between the public persona and the private parent has the resonance of Truth, told in the intimate tone of a close friend. I really treasure this book; it is a document that at many instances became a mirror for me."
Lawrence J. Friedman
Author of Identity's Architect: A Biography of Erik H. EriksonVisiting Professor, History of Science, Harvard University
"This is a remarkable, deeply captivating exercise in self-reflection and self-understanding. Sue Bloland excavates the complex, layered dynamics of the family that her prominent parents forged. She arrives at unprecedented depth and remarkable insights."
M. Gerard Fromm, Ph.D., ABPP
Evelyn Stefansson Nef DirectorErikson Institute for Education and Research
Austen Riggs Center
"Sue Erikson Bloland's memoir is, at once, a heart-rending account of family tragedy in the context of driven aspirations and profound achievement, and an illumination of fame as a powerful dynamic process. She transforms pain-filled experience into personal, and now shared, truth."
Howard Gardner
Author of Changing MindsHobbs Professor of Education and Cognition
Harvard Graduate School of Education
"Drawing on often painful experiences as the child of celebrated parents, Sue Erikson Bloland illuminates how fame affects the dazzled public, those closest to the celebrity, and the celebrity himself."
American Library Association
BOOKLIST, December 1, 2004"Bloland’s emotionally stinging, intellectually acute recollections are sure to attract a large audience."
Publishers Weekly
January 31, 2005A "... probing memoir... Anyone interested in the problems of fame will find Bloland's memoir useful. "
Los Angeles Times
February 19, 2005
"...Bloland's hard-won insights about fame are astute, and her analysis of its workings is unusually thoughtful."
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