 Margaret also offered many insights into other Salinger myths , including her father 's supposed long @-@ time interest in <unk> , and involvement with " alternative medicine " and Eastern philosophies . A few weeks after Dream Catcher was published , Margaret 's brother Matt discredited the memoir in a letter to The New York Observer . He disparaged his sister 's " gothic tales of our supposed childhood " and stated : " I can 't say with any authority that she is consciously making anything up . I just know that I grew up in a very different house , with two very different parents from those my sister describes . " 
