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Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search For Her Mother's History

Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search For Her Mother's History - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Helen EpsteinPublish date:2021-11-11Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Plunkett Lake PressISBN-13:9798985192513ISBN-10:8985192515UPC:9798985192513Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:WomenSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.79 inchesWeight:1.142Product ID:SCR5ZY2R5Q
In this second book of her trilogy, Children of the Holocaust, Where She Came From and The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma, Helen Epstein reconstructs the lives of three generations of Central-European women: her great-grandmother Theresa; her grandmother Pepi and her mother Franci - all dressmakers. As in Children of the Holocaust, she creates a hybrid narrative that braids techniques of journalism, biography, and memoir, and provides a new perspective on the social and cultural history of Jewish women of the 19th and 20th centuries.

"With this family history, Epstein adds a vivid and telling chapter to the reconstruction of Jewish women's history, one life at a time. The settings range from the Bohemian town of Brtnice; to the Belle Epoque Vienna of assimilated Jews; to newly independent and cosmopolitan Prague in the 1920s, where Pepi ran a fashion salon; to Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and finally New York. It is a compelling account, one that any woman trying to recover her history will value." - Kirkus Reviews

"In Epstein's expert and sensitive hands, truth becomes not only stranger than fiction, but more magnetic, wise and powerful." - Gloria Steinem

"Written with her superb talent for storytelling, her tale is profoundly human." - Elie Wiesel
Language:EnglishPublisher:Plunkett Lake PressISBN-13:9798985192513ISBN-10:8985192515UPC:9798985192513Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:WomenSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.79 inchesWeight:1.142Product ID:SCR5ZY2R5Q
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press

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