How To Make A Life: A Novel
Written by Florence Reiss Kraut
Narrated by Justine Reiss
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“An engaging and heartfelt portrayal of intergenerational trauma and hope.” -Kirkus Reviews
How to Make a Life: A Novel is a spellbinding family saga with strong shades of history; it is engrossing and fast-paced.” — Romuald Dzemo, Readers' Favorite
When Ida and her daughter Bessie flee a catastrophic pogrom in Ukraine for America in 1905, they believe their emigration will ensure that their children and grandchildren will be safe from harm. But choices and decisions made by one generation have ripple effects on those who come later--and in the decades that follow, family secrets, betrayals, and mistakes made in the name of love threaten the survival of the family: Bessie and Abe Weissman's children struggle with the shattering effects of daughter Ruby's mental illness, of Jenny's love affair with her brother-in-law, of the disappearance of Ruby's daughter as she flees her mother's legacy, and of the accidental deaths of Irene's husband and granddaughter.
A sweeping saga that follows four generations from the tenements of Brooklyn through WWII, from Woodstock to India, and from Spain to Israel, How to Make a Life is the story of a family who must either deal with their differences or cut ties with the people who anchor their place in the world.
Florence Reiss Kraut
Florence Reiss Kraut is a native New Yorker, raised and educated in New York City. She holds a BA in English and a MSW in social work, and she worked for thirty years as a clinician, a family therapist, and finally CEO of a family service agency before retiring to write and travel widely. She has published stories for children and teens, romance stories for national magazines, literary stories, and personal essays for the Westchester section of The New York Times. She has three married children and nine grandchildren. Street Corner Dreams is her second novel, following the excellent reception of How to Make a Life, her first novel. She lives in Rye, New York, and the Berkshires, Massachusetts.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a book it reads like a true story one thing for sure you need a memory to remember all the family names the story gets better with each generation the narrator did a fantastic job