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Finding My Place: Making My Parents’ American Dream Come True
Think you know Elizabeth Pipko? Guess again. She’s been described by many as a rising star in the Conservative movement, but how did she get here? And more importantly, did she ever plan to? In Finding My Place, Elizabeth takes us back to the beginning. As the daughter of immigrants and a proud religious Jew, Elizabeth dives into the core of what drives the sacrifices of her parents and grandparents and all that they had to endure to make sure that she had the opportunity to live the American dream. With an emphasis on her faith and her upbringing, where she pinpoints the lessons and moments that she knew would dictate her future, Elizabeth takes us on a journey that started long before she was even born. From heartbreak and injury, to triumph and recognition, to her start as a figure skater, a writer, a model, and eventually a political activist, Elizabeth takes us along on her journey of finding her place in the world of sports, fashion, Judaism, politics, and so much more. Finding My Place is the behind-the-scenes look at everything she has yet to tell the world.
199 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 25, 2020
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September 11, 2020
A Personal Story
"Finding My Place" is Elizabeth Pipko's very personal and revealing autobiographical story of the first part of her young life. Her story begins with her family fleeing religious and political persecution in the Communist Soviet Union, a place where her grandfather listened to the "Voice of America" hidden in his bathroom, afraid the neighbors would inform on him for not conforming to the dictates of the Communist Party. It was a place where Jews were not free to openly practice their religion lest their careers be taken from them. Her family fled with almost nothing in their pockets to America, a land of freedom.
Elizabeth, as a nine year old, dreamed of becoming an Olympic skater and trained in Florida until her bones broke and her ligaments ripped one time too many. With her dreams crushed as a teenager, Elizabeth drowned in despair, in pain pills, in self- mutilation. Her narrative describing these experiences is searingly honest and forthright. Her next dream happened on a lark -signing with a top New York modeling agency only to find the profession filled with the most vile forms of sexual harassment and that the agency heads were all too eager to look the other way, belittling her reports and taking no action.
Finally, Elizabeth, believing in her patriotism and the American dream her parents and grandparents fled Communism to attain, spent 2016 volunteering for the Trump campaign, putting her modeling career at risk and becoming an object of bullying from the media and those she thought were friends. Harkening back to the cold Soviet Union where her family were not free to speak their minds, Elizabeth laments the dirty attacks on her and the attempts to silence her through a campaign of intimidation.
This is a well-written, no-holds-barred, deeply personal story which makes you wonder why our world has turned so nasty and why civil conversation is silenced.
"Finding My Place" is Elizabeth Pipko's very personal and revealing autobiographical story of the first part of her young life. Her story begins with her family fleeing religious and political persecution in the Communist Soviet Union, a place where her grandfather listened to the "Voice of America" hidden in his bathroom, afraid the neighbors would inform on him for not conforming to the dictates of the Communist Party. It was a place where Jews were not free to openly practice their religion lest their careers be taken from them. Her family fled with almost nothing in their pockets to America, a land of freedom.
Elizabeth, as a nine year old, dreamed of becoming an Olympic skater and trained in Florida until her bones broke and her ligaments ripped one time too many. With her dreams crushed as a teenager, Elizabeth drowned in despair, in pain pills, in self- mutilation. Her narrative describing these experiences is searingly honest and forthright. Her next dream happened on a lark -signing with a top New York modeling agency only to find the profession filled with the most vile forms of sexual harassment and that the agency heads were all too eager to look the other way, belittling her reports and taking no action.
Finally, Elizabeth, believing in her patriotism and the American dream her parents and grandparents fled Communism to attain, spent 2016 volunteering for the Trump campaign, putting her modeling career at risk and becoming an object of bullying from the media and those she thought were friends. Harkening back to the cold Soviet Union where her family were not free to speak their minds, Elizabeth laments the dirty attacks on her and the attempts to silence her through a campaign of intimidation.
This is a well-written, no-holds-barred, deeply personal story which makes you wonder why our world has turned so nasty and why civil conversation is silenced.
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