Songs My Mother Taught Me (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781647426989)

Songs My Mother Taught Me follows the narrator, confronted with the imminent death of her mother, on a voyage to share the final leg of their lifelong journey together. With candor and lucidity, she retraces the passage from childhood to womanhood under the powerful influence of a loving but suffocating mother. Told by a daughter who has carried all her life the epigenetic endowment inherited from her parents' experiences during the Holocaust, this raw and painfully honest story digs into the complexities and subtleties of love. Having spent most of her life traveling the globe in an attempt to escape this legacy, the narrator finds herself back in the house she grew up in, where she tries to finally piece together, and find peace with, the looming shadows of her family's past.

This epic and lyrical tale spans from Transylvania in the 1930s to modernday
Tel Aviv, Tokyo, New York, and Paris--giving a literary voice to those
affected by PTSD transmitted down the generations.

Author: Eva Izsak
ISBN-10: 1647426987
ISBN-13: 9781647426989
Publisher: She Writes Press
Language: English
Published: 07/16/2024
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d