Lost and Found: Surviving Displacement, Finding Love, Uncovering Secrets - Couverture rigide

Huber, Ann Avram

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0988354454 ISBN 13 : 9780988354456

Editeur : Mishpucha Books, 2017

Synopsis

The memoir, Lost and Found, tells the story of a girl who flees with her family from post-World War II Romania, and then as a nine-year old is whisked away in the dead of night from her childhood home in Haifa, Israel. Leaving behind her beloved grandmother, the family immigrates to Montreal, Canada, where she feels utterly lost. The new culture, with different languages, customs, and multiple dominant religions is disorienting and Ann struggles to adapt, fit in, and find herself. Her ability to do so is compromised by her own emotional trauma and that of her parents, as well as the restrictions placed on her by their minority religion and its placement in society. When she meets the love of her life at a young age, she learns that his family's history of displacement and survival during the Holocaust parallels her own. As she matures, has children, and her ambitions grow, the author finds an inner strength. Even a shocking family secret learned late in life that might have shattered another person's world view, only strengthens her resolve to remain true to herself.

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À propos de l'auteur

Born in war-torn Romania shortly after WWII, Ann fled to Israel along with her family, and then they abruptly immigrated to Canada. She moved to the US at 19, another uprooting in her young life. Her extraordinary life of dealing with losses and secrets, and findinglove, is the subject of this moving memoir. After putting herself through law school, Ann practiced law for 33 years, most recently in the New Jersey Attorney General's Office. She was elected to the Randolph Township Council and served for several years, one as mayor. She studied at McGill University, Wayne State University, Rutgers University, and Rutgers Law School. She now volunteers at an animal shelter, does pro bono legal work with children at risk for deportation, and spends as much time as she can with her seven grandchildren. She and Herm, her husband of 48 years, raised their three daughters in Randolph, New Jersey and now live in Madison, New Jersey.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mishpucha Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0988354454
• ISBN 13: 9780988354456
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible