My New Orleans, Gone Away: a Memoir of Loss and Renewal / Peter Wolf 322 pp.

I think of this book as meatless.  (Not the author; just the book.)  Peter Wolf grew up in Metairie, LA, the son of a successful cotton merchant.  His family were non-observant Jews.  They were not allowed to join certain country clubs, but no one, his family included, seemed to care much.  His parents were distant but decent.  He attended a northeastern prep/boarding school whose name I can't remember, then Yale.  He traveled around the world (all the way around, on PanAm.) He returned to New Orleans to work for his father, then moved to New York to attend grad school in art history, and made his career.  Along the way he was loved by several terrific-sounding women.  He acknowledges that at the time of his college graduation unemployment was rare. Not really feeling his pain here, or much of anything else. (OK,  maybe I"m feeling mild class resentment.  But that's all.)