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July 25, 2008

Reality check

Los Angeles Times columnist Sandy Banks offers her read of Margaret Seltzer’s phony South Central memoir. She is offended. Puzzled, too. And she looks for answers at the scene of Selter’s lies.

Eso Won bookstore in South Los Angeles was supposed to host the author at a book-signing Friday night but canceled and sent the books back. No customers have asked about the book or mentioned the scandal, said owner Tom Hamilton.

“There’s been too much going on,” he said “The 6-year-old shot in the car, the high school football player killed outside his house.”

In other words, it’s been the kind of dispiriting week in South Los Angeles that makes hand-wringing over a suburban girl’s play-acting laughable.

Posted by Donna Wares, March 9th, 2008 | Permalink
File under: Booksellers, Commentary, Debacle, Sad, Shades of evil
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