My Mother's Question: Truth and Consequences in a Family's Story

ISBN-13: 9780615495941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 340 str.

Wallace Vickers Kaufman

Opis

The survivor of two suicide attempts begins a quest to understand her family's curse of depression, as well as its many gifts and rumored nobility. The story begins with her girlhood in Roslyn Village on Long Island but as her son takes up her unfinished work, it leads him to the Scottish border and back to the Jewish ghettos and villages of Bohemia, and finally forward to descendants on five continents.