Songs My Mother Taught Me

Name: Songs My Mother Taught Me
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ISBN: 9781647426989

A Novel

Eva Izsak

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English

She Writes Press
16 July 2024

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Songs My Mother Taught Me follows the narrator, confronted with the imminent death of her mother, on a voyage to share the final leg of their lifelong journey together. With candor and lucidity, she retraces the passage from childhood to womanhood under the powerful influence of a loving but suffocating mother. Told by a daughter who has carried all her life the epigenetic endowment inherited from her parents' experiences during the Holocaust, this raw and painfully honest story digs into the complexities and subtleties of love. Having spent most of her life traveling the globe in an attempt to escape this legacy, the narrator finds herself back in the house she grew up in, where she tries to finally piece together, and find peace with, the looming shadows of her family's past.

This epic and lyrical tale spans from Transylvania in the 1930s to moderndayTel Aviv, Tokyo, New York, and Paris-giving a literary voice to thoseaffected by PTSD transmitted down the generations.

By: Eva Izsak
Imprint: She Writes Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9781647426989
ISBN 10: 1647426987
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 16 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eva Izsak grew up in Israel and graduated from the Hebrew University School of Law. For over twenty years she practiced with some of the largest law firms in New York and served as in-house counsel in the US and in France. A mother of two daughters, Eva lives in Tokyo, Tel Aviv, New York, and Paris.

Reviews for Songs My Mother Taught Me: A Novel

""This gripping, intelligent, beautifully told novel is many things: a complex mother-daughter love story; a highly original read; and an at times deeply moving book about painful inherited family trauma.""--Tom Gross, writer for the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, and Jerusalem Post ""This book is a powerful and moving personal account of transgenerational transmission of Holocaust trauma."" --Natan P.F. Kellermann, Clinical psychologist, author of Holocaust Trauma