No return address : a memoir of displacement /

In recounting her life's journey from Romania to the United States, Vlasopolos writes movingly of the peculiar attributes of displacement in the contemporary world. Vlasopolos renders a loving portrait of her mother, an Auschwitz survivor courageously raising a young girl alone after the death...

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Main Author: Vlasopolos, Anca, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chronology
  • ONE: Mouthfuls
  • TWO: Gatekeepers
  • THREE: Out of the Mouth
  • FOUR: The Vocabulary of Faith
  • FIVE: Mud Miracles
  • SIX: To Eat or Not to Eat
  • SEVEN: Bucharest
  • EIGHT: Contingencies
  • NINE: Telling Tales
  • TEN: Growing Boys
  • ELEVEN: Paris
  • TWELVE: Brussels
  • THIRTEEN: Walls
  • FOURTEEN: Frankfurt Passage
  • FIFTEEN: Misplacing Detroit
  • SIXTEEN: Where All the Lights Were Bright
  • SEVENTEEN: Variations on the Pastoral
  • EIGHTEEN: Sub-Urban Skies
  • NINETEEN: Endings, Continuities
  • TWENTY: Returns.