The Net of Dreams A Family's Search for a Rightful Place

by SALAMON, JULIE

• ISBN13: 9780812991697
• ISBN10: 0812991699
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-03-12
• Publisher: Random House

Summary

The author of The Devil's Candy and White Lies--herself the daughter of Holocaust survivors--shares her family's stories: her mother's memory of Josef Mengele; her father's relocation to Ohio after the war; and her own Jewish upbringing in the heartland of America. From the Hardcover edition.

Author Biography

Julie Salamon is the author of several award-winning books for adults, including Wendy and the Lost Boys, as well as her debut novel for children, Cat in the City. Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and more.  She lives in Manhattan with her family.

Table of Contents

Prologue: "Sputnik"	p. 3
Nine Lives	p. 11
Good Color	p. 29
Fievel's Grandson	p. 41
The Lucky One	p. 55
The Genius	p. 75
Passover	p. 89
The Gypsy Woman	p. 111
Heaven on Earth	p. 127
Daddy	p. 149
Set for Life	p. 157
The Accounting	p. 177
Born Again	p. 193
America	p. 211
The False Spring	p. 227
The Sign	p. 243
This Is the Place	p. 259
The Conspiracy of Happiness	p. 281
A Very Good Life	p. 291
Nem Tudom	p. 305
Absence	p. 321
Epilogue: "Is It So, Suzy?"	p. 331
Acknowledgments	p. 337
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