Pee-Shy

A successful doctor faces the lingering trauma of sexual abuseand the former Scoutmaster who molested himin this ';refreshingly honest' memoir (Publishers Weekly).Growing up on Staten Island in the 1970s, Frank Spinelli's working-class Italian parents viewed cops and priests as second only to the Pope. His mother, concerned that her son was being bullied at school for being ';different,' signed Frank up for Boy Scouts when he turned eleven. For the next two years, Frank's life had two realitiesone lived in full view of his family, and the other a secret he shared with his Scoutmaster that he couldn't confess to anybody. Eventually Frank went to college, established a thriving medical practice, and found a home in Manhattan. But the emotional and physical effects of his past continued to shadow every aspect of his life. Then a shocking discovery gave Frank the opportunity to overturn thirty years of confusion and self-blamefor himself, and for other boys like him. ';This is one of those horrific, true stories that Dr. Spinelli so courageously reveals... His story is one of too many, but maybe, this one will help open our eyes a little more and shine a light on a taboo subject that many chose not to see.' Whoopi Goldberg