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Book Review – Unemployable: How I Hired Myself by Alysia Silberg

Unemployable: How I Hired Myself by Alysia Silberg is a riveting memoir of a successful entrepreneur who started from the street selling of South Africa and went on to become a successful venture capitalist in the USA. It is a work of non-fiction; the lead character is none other than the author – Alysia Silber. The book is poignant in depicting her struggle against difficulties and obstacles. Right since childhood, as her father would say that she holds terrific sales power. The book starts quite dramatically. Alysia takes us through insecurities of Johannesburg where carjacking and plundering and shooting were as rampant as in any part of Africa. Her childhood days in South Africa were marred by the voice of Apartheid. All the more, her father passed away without settling the family. Her mother had abusive tendencies, she burdened Alysia with the responsibility of the family – only she could take it ahead, in the light, as Moses did for Jews thousands of years back. Somewhat this r...