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Published by She Writes Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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About The Book
Songs My Mother Taught Me follows protagonist on her final voyage to see her dying mother, who is hissing and kicking all the way to the grave. Having spent decades trying to escape her heritage by constantly moving around the globe—Tokyo, New York, then Paris—the narrator finds herself back in the house she grew up in. She is confronted with the epigenetical endowment inherited from her parents’ experiences and has to come to peace with the looming shadows of the past.
An epic and lyrical tale that spans from Transylvania in the 1930s through Scarsdale, NY to present-day Europe, Songs My Mother Taught Me touches upon questions of identity, immigration, and PTSD transmitted down the generations—giving voice to those who grew up in the aftermath of their parents’ trauma.
An epic and lyrical tale that spans from Transylvania in the 1930s through Scarsdale, NY to present-day Europe, Songs My Mother Taught Me touches upon questions of identity, immigration, and PTSD transmitted down the generations—giving voice to those who grew up in the aftermath of their parents’ trauma.
Product Details
- Publisher: She Writes Press (July 16, 2024)
- Length: 232 pages
- ISBN13: 9781647426996
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Raves and Reviews
“This gripping, intelligent, beautifully told novel is many things: a complex mother-daughter love story; a highly original read; and an at times deeply moving book about painful inherited family trauma.”—Tom Gross, writer for the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, and Jerusalem Post
“This book is a powerful and moving personal account of transgenerational transmission of Holocaust trauma.”
—Natan P.F. Kellermann, Clinical psychologist, author of Holocaust Trauma
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