Small Mediums at Large: The True Tale of a Family of Psychics

I am 3/4 done with this book, and I haven't finished it yet, but I wanted to write this review. It's about Terry's childhood, and then her life on her own, out in the big world. She goes to New York, gets jobs, gets roommates........and it continues about her discovering herself and her world and her relationship to her family members. It gets a little bogged down at times because it seems like she's having a hard time growing up and being on her own, and you just want her to get on with it. There are some things in this book that caught me off guard a little. It got a little kinky and weird at times, but it is about her life and experiences, so you have to go with it to continue with the story. Like I said, I haven't finished it yet, but I am anxious to get back to it. She is a good story teller and is brutally honest. That's all I ask for in a good book. She has the guts to tell her story, because she doesn't always look good in the situations she finds herself in. She doesn't always make the right decisions! So, At 3/4 done reading this book, I give it 5 stars because it has held my interest.

This book was impossible to put down. I loved it! I recommend that anyone with an interest in paranormal read this book.

Baby boomer Ask the Psychic Cosmo Girl columnist Terry Iacuzzo writes an intriguing second insightful biography that showcases growing up in Buffalo and beyond as an adult as part of a fortune telling family of seers. The acclaimed psychic provides a complete picture including non-paranormal relationships as much as the otherworldly séances and visions. Whether you believe or not, this is a terrific bio that showcases a family that dared to be different yet had dysfunctional elements such as a fortune telling matriarch who could work the other side but was unable to nurture her children. Most interesting is the teenage Terry who used her powers to gain social acceptance in high school. The 1950s through 1970s dialogues are fascinating especially the supernatural claims even if a doubting Thomasina questions recall during the drug haze of the Nixon era. Still this remains a superb engaging memoir of a complex convoluted family where the incredible is accepted as the norm, but the norm is questionable at best. Harriet Klausner

I knew I was going to dig this book; call it "intuition"! As a fan of anything leading edge- and trust me the world hasn't even scratched the surface of multi dimensional reality- I was hoping this book would give glimpses of things that I haven't yet been able to view first hand. I was not dissapointed ; I loved feeling just like I was right beside the author as she gives the reader a tour of her experiences. The psychic eccentric early family dynamics that gave birth to the current life are hysterical and poignant.I enjoyed seeing firsthand what certain pockets of experience were like in the sixties and seventies in NY city, downtown and on the Upper west side,in psychic dens, tarot readers lairs and spiritualists meetings. Most people will be left with with their mouths agape over some of the events that take place in the spiritualist community- objects that materialize out of thin air and are delivered via a horn! The author is very sincere and open, revealing personal heartaches and doubts, the pain of being so receptive and wildly spiritually adventurous- LSD trips notwithstanding. Imagine having no filters to the despair that surrounds you at times- i.e. catching the eye of a man on the subway and seeing a mental picture of a murdered woman in a hotel room- knowing that he was the killer ,reading the headlines the next day confirming the story ... We also get a whole lot of the authors organic journey and the maturation of herself into a bona fide psychic reader separate from the family shadow , cast from the Jupiterian Wizard that is her famous older brother... Really nothing is held back or hedged, it's rare to find this kind of honesty in a life tale; revealed in nuanced details. I just couldn't put the book down once I began, and that's always the highest praise.

This is a truly wonderful book, an amazingly personal, open, and honest look at the life and family of an extremely gifted psychic. The author, the youngest of 3 psychic children born to psychic parents, traces the influences of her family and friends on her attempts to claim and assert her independence and self determination. She pulls no punches; this is a sometimes painful telling of her lifetime search for understanding and truth. The book is almost impossible to put down and engages you from the first page -- I read it in one extended sitting and was very sorry to see it end.