EXCELLENT!!!!

 ‘Raised Eyebrows’ is an excellent overview of the last three years of the life of one of America’s cleverest comedians, Groucho Marx. Author, Steve Stoliar, crafts an excellent tale, that reads almost as a novel of fiction, weaving in complex individuals as a person with borderline personality disorder; her employer, an aging individual who realizes his life is slipping; the family and friends and the legal battle that ensues.

This is a book to read and learn more of the elderly, for one. I work with a lot of folks who are aging and see so much true in what Stoliar writes. The baby boom generation, I think, needs to be in tune with what awaits them in the future and this is great guidance. Despite was Dennis Hopper might say in a financial commercial, you don’t dictate your aging. Coming to terms with aging is a far heakthier track to take.

Also, this is a very good unintentional study of someone with borderline personality disorder, Groucho’s assistant Erin Fleming. These stories are hard to find. Mostly because the people are hard to monitor and those that have such a person around them typically become co-dependent.  I was unfortunate to have the experience with my ex-wife and feel bad that anyone has to experience such a warped life. Fleming made the mistake of having independent observers who could see the problem. Yet we are fortunate that Stoliar stepped forward and wrote about the experience.