Whistling the Dark: Personal Essays

Growing up in the 1950s as the daughter of refugees from Hitler's Europe who longed for their former lives and culture, explore her youth, her mother's Viennese upbringing, her father's work in the diamond business and long battle with Alzheimer's, her typewriter, the landscapes of New York, her ongoing sense of alienation, and her development as a writer. Readers will be swept up in the graceful prose that distinguishes Lucienne S. Bloch's award-winning work. The universal themes of memory, belonging, family, identity, survival, and aging are artfully woven throughout the essays in will resonate with readers of all ages and backgrounds.