Young and old alike
Danica Roem’s memoir is an activist tale with heart, while Dot & Ralfie proves old age ain’t for sissies TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER | Bookworm SezBookwormSez@yahoo.com Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change by Danica Roem; c.2022, Viking; $27; 320 pages. Sometimes the smallest things make you hot under the collar.
It doesn’t take much: an idiot on the road, a disrespectful eye-roll, something muttered under someone’s breath — and that’s it; you’re torched.
Sometimes, conversely, the smallest things can change your bad mood. In Burn the Page by Danica Roem, it was an email. It seemed like Danica Roem was always crying.
To be fair, she had good reason: She was working two jobs, and they weren’t enough to pay the bills. Her car was a piece of junk; it was 2016, and her states’ Republican delegates had just filed several anti-LGBTQ bills.
