Bending toward the sun
Subtitle: a mother and daughter memoir
By: Leslie Gilbert-Lurie ; with Rita Lurie
Edition: 1st HarperLuxe ed.
Publisher: HarperLuxe
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9780061885136
Subjects: Forintelsens overlevande; Polish Personal narratives; Holocaust survivors; Modrar och dottrar; Biografi; World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924; Personliga berattelser; World War, 1939-1945; Mothers and daughters; Biography; Andra varldskriget 1939-1945
Description: Writer, lawyer, and former NBC executive Leslie Gilbert-Lurie shares the results of a decade-long collaboration with her mother, a Holocaust survivor, revealing how deeply the Holocaust remains in the hearts and minds of survivors, even influencing the lives of their descendants.
Table of contents: title: In Mom's voice (1937-1960). Childhood, interrupted ; Stashik is coming ; Safe for the moment ; Where is God? ; Far from normal ; Good-bye, Urzejowice ; Una situazione molto grave ; A taste of freedom ; The greenhorns ; But we just got used to it here ; Utterly demoralized ; I might even marry him ; A wonderful mother; title: My own voice (1960-1997). On my watch ; Bread crumbs ; Magical distractions ; I do understand ; Sunday inquisitions ; Time to say "I love you" ; A word game ; Society of Overachieving Offspring of Holocaust Survivors ; Team Leah ; "Just jump" ; It's not that kind of thing ; Inside NBC ; The most beautiful woman in the attic ; Water your garden ; The present I needed to appreciate; title: A joint venture (1997-2008). Maybe I should write it ; Feelings of a deprived child ; I tried my best ; Ma of the grand ; A deluxe buffet ; Mikaela : different from other kids my age ; Rita : lessons to be learned ; The abyss ; Legacy.