This lively and moving memoir chronicles the author's family history beginning in the early 20th century in Western Germany and continuing through the rise of Nazism and her parents' escape to the United States, where they met and married and she was born. Susan Wertheim Farkas goes on to describe her childhood in New York and how her family was indelibly affected by the losses and traumas of the Holocaust. It speaks as well of turning from a child into an adult, getting married, and becoming a mother of two children. And then we watch her watch her own children get married and become parents as well, and make her a grandmother of four. "And it examines," she says, "the deaths of my parents after more than half a century of a fulfilling life in a new country. I have tried to examine who I was and who I have become, and everything that I've learned along the way. It is my hope that this book will give my children and grandchildren greater insight into our family history and a strong understanding of where they came from. It's about the significant moments in our lives that flourish in our memory."
