The Fortune Teller's Kiss |
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Author:
| Serotte, Brenda |
Series title: | American Lives Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8032-4353-8 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2012 |
Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $28.60 |
Book Description:
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Shortly before her eighth birthday, in the fall of 1954, Brenda Serotte came down with polio - painfully singled out in a world already marked by differences. Her bout with the dreaded disease is at the heart of this poignant and heartbreakingly hilarious memoir of growing up a Sephardic Jew among Ashkenazi neighbors in the Bronx.
Shortly before her eighth birthday, in the fall of 1954, Brenda Serotte came down with polio - painfully singled out in a world already marked by differences. Her bout with the dreaded disease is at the heart of this poignant and heartbreakingly hilarious memoir of growing up a Sephardic Jew among Ashkenazi neighbors in the Bronx.