I first heard about Laura Pedersen’s memoir Buffalo Gal when I was browsing UU World a week or so ago. I was caught by her sense of humor and the fact that she’s roughly my contemporary (five years older, but we watched the same TV shows). I mean, how often [...]]]>
Buffalo Gal
Laura Pedersen
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I first heard about Laura Pedersen’s memoir Buffalo Gal when I was browsing UU World a week or so ago. I was caught by her sense of humor and the fact that she’s roughly my contemporary (five years older, but we watched the same TV shows). I mean, how often does one find a book by a UU woman on mainstream shelves?

Of course I had to buy the book.
Of course I had to read the book.

My measure of a good stort – fiction or non-fiction – is whether or not I feel compelled to read it straight through in one sitting. By this definition, Pedersen’s memoir is a good story. It’s about her childhood in Buffalo, NY, as an only child (another thing I could relate to) of UU parents, in a largely Catholic community.

At times funny, at times poignant, and laced with no small measure of self-deprecation, Buffalo Gal is an enjoyable read.
Buffalo Gal