Category - Non Fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Excellent
Listed - 5 months ago
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Ships From - Michigan
Est. Publication Date - Apr 2005
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When Samuel G. Freedman was nearing fifty, the same age at which his mother died of breast can-cer, he realized that he did not know who she was. Of course, he knew that Eleanor had been his mother, a mother he kept at an emotional distance both in life and after death. He had never thought about the entire life she lived before him, a life of her own dreams and disappointments. And now, that ignorance haunted him. So Freedman set out to discover the past, and Who She Was is the story of what he found. It is the story of a young woman's ambitions and yearnings, of the struggles of her impoverished immigrant parents, and of the ravages of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Holocaust. It is also the story of a middle-aged son wracked with regret over the disregard he had shown as a teenage boy for a terminally ill mother, and as an adult incapable for decades of visiting her grave. It is the story of how he healed that wound by asking all the questions he had not asked when his mother was alive.
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Who She Was: My Search for My Mother's Life
ISBN: 9780743227353
Publisher Description
Nearly 30 years after his mother died at age 50, the acclaimed author of "JewVs. Jew" set out to discover everything he could about her lost life. This isthe poignant, unflinching chronicle of what he...
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