Gravity - Softcover

Rosner, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0989302334 ISBN 13: 9780989302333

Publisher: Atelier26 Books, 2014

Synopsis

Through an extraordinarily powerful mix of poetry and prose, the author shares her experience as the daughter of Holocaust survivors. She recounts her false starts in raising the subject with her father (a survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp), his piecemeal revelations, and their eventual travels together to the sites of the nightmare in Germany. Through her work she evokes, courageously and heart-wrenchingly, her search for identity against the gravitational pull of her parents' experience and the traditional upbringing they've given her. These astonishing pages remind us that history happens at home and that the past is something we all embody, knowingly or not.

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth Rosner has been teaching and writing for more than 30 years. Her fiction has been translated into nine languages and her essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Elle, The Forward, and numerous anthologies. She is the author of Blue Nude, Electric City, and The Speed of Light. She lives in Berkeley, California. Lola Fraknoi grew up in Lima, Peru as a second generation Holocaust survivor. Her artwork draws inspiration from nature, the colors of many cultures, and oral history. She lives in San Francisco, California.

Review:

"Daringly, disarmingly raw and honest, Rosner's potent confrontation of the past and ambivalent acceptance of the present coalesce in a haunting, soulful portrait of grief, memory, belief, and comfort." ~ Carol Haggas, Booklist

About this edition

• Publisher: Atelier26 Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0989302334
• ISBN 13: 9780989302333
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112
• Illustrator: Fraknoi Lola