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Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite
Larry Setren’s You Never Asked About My Medal follows the author, a Maryland boy from a Jewish family shaped by migration from Lithuania. The question behind the title begins with Uncle Seymour, a decorated veteran whose life teaches Setren that public silence can hide great bravery. Home gives him one education; leaving home gives him another. Setren studies abroad, then takes jobs far from the country he knew. Adulthood builds his family life. It also brings him into rooms where decisions touch people he will never meet. The memoir widens from childhood memory into a search for the private worth inside other lives. Setren looks back at people who rarely announce what they have endured, then asks what we miss when no one thinks to ask for the story.
Larry Setren’s You Never Asked About My Medal is a beautiful memoir, and the author's gift is the way he turns memory into gratitude for other people. His praise feels personal at every turn. Pop’s raised hammer in the shoe shop gives the book one of its purest portraits of family protection. Père André’s Algerian school gives the memoir a moving portrait of faith shown through hospitality under danger. At Genentech, the Herceptin decision lets Setren praise medicine as a human promise carried through corporate rooms. His mother’s California visit is my favorite slice of life in the whole book, as shared errands and meals become a tender tribute to time returned. I agree with Setren's sentiment, and this is a great book for nostalgia seekers who value memoirs about family memory and everyday bravery.
