Sep/090
Bending Toward the Sun / Family on the Today Show!
The Cover, Photo Editing by Chris Gilbert
As a part of the promotion of her new book “Bending Toward the Sun”, (Click to buy it!) my S’mom Leslie was interviewed on the Today Show. (Click to watch it!)
I’m very proud of this book, as it has been an extremely cathartic outlet for Leslie, her mom, and to my wonderful sister Mikaela.
It is the product of years of hard work, and often the painful rehashing of dark memories of a dark time in my Grandma’s life, and the world.
A brief synopsis of the book: My Grandma’s story is similar to Anne Frank’s in that she lived out some of her formative years in a tiny attic in Poland to escape the Nazis, the key difference being that my Grandmother survived to tell her tale. Thank god. The book chronicles her harrowing experiences, then goes on to trace how those horrible times have gone on to affect future generations. As my Grandmother started her family in America she passed down some of these traumas, and so the book becomes a generational memoir of this Holocaust legacy: from Mother to daughter, and from daughter to grand daughter.
Anyhow, the book is a great read if you’re at all fascinated by the Holocaust, my family, or psychology.
Congrats Leslie, Grandma, and Moosh- You are incredible human beings, and I love you all. So proud.