White Liesis the eloquent story of one woman’s narrow escape from the confusion of her time. With insight and humor, White Liesfollows Jamaica’s struggle for survival and integrity in an age of anxiety as she tries to reconcile herself to the overwhelming inauthenticity she feels in the face of her mother and father’s lives. Dr. and Mrs. Just came to America from the death camps of Europe and secluded themselves in the Bible Belt, determined to shield their daughters from the horror they had survived. They wanted to live and to forgetbut that wasn’t always possible. Sometimes the fierceness and the pain were revealed but never explained. Only with the unintentional assistance of an intimate stranger does Jamaica begin to grasp how her parents were able to make peace with their past.
المزيد من الكتب الإلكترونية من نفس المؤلف (المؤلفين) / محرر
293٬843 كتب إلكترونية في هذه الفئة
