On My Way To Someplace Else eBook Sandra Hurtes
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"…On My Way to Someplace Else is a collection of essays from Sandra Hurtes reflecting on her childhood of growing up with Holocaust survivor parents. These essays have been previously published elsewhere, but here they are compiled and give readers much to appreciate through Hurtes' work. On My Way to Someplace Else is a top pick for memoir collections."
Midwest Book Review----------------------------------------------------
"In this moving and bittersweet collection of very short essays, Hurtes traces the often painful process of the search for an identity in the face of a devastating and overwhelming familial history...While the library of works written by the children of Holocaust survivors is vast, Hurtes book distinguishes itself by focusing on her parents history primarily through the lens of her own story."
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On My Way To Someplace Else eBook Sandra Hurtes
These finely crafted essays follow the author, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, on an emotional journey of self-discovery. As a child weighted with the sadness of her parents' experiences, Hurtes desperately wants "to restore the happiness so bitterly stolen from my parents' lives." She wonders--how she could ever separate from them? Yet separate she does, as she becomes an adult, navigating life in the city she loves, New York. These essays, which are both lyrical and enlightening, may move you to tears--sometimes of pain, and sometimes, laughter. Highly recommended.Product details
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On My Way To Someplace Else eBook Sandra Hurtes Reviews
After reading Hurtes' essay "Keeping Alive the Dreams of Love" in the New York Times, I was delighted to have the chance to read more of her thoughtful essays on life, love and loss in NYC.
As a fellow 2g, I enjoyed this book immensely. I recommend it to all daughters of Holocaust Survivors. Fela Zieff
This collection of essays evokes every emotion. Reading On My Way To Someplace Else reminds you of how strong the human spirit is. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and I highly recommend it.
Sandra, born in America to two Holocaust survivors shares with us through stunning essays and haunting photographs. She has a way of sharing her story that, I for one, connected with the journey of my own grandparents, parents and the world they knew -- The love and struggle of past generations and how we each got here.
Her particular story is fascinating, loving and honestly shared.
"Charm kills," Evelyn Waugh said. And he ought to know. His characters swan and dazzle, they're everywhere you want to be, but when the party ends, they are alone with themselves. And at three in the morning, who finds herself charming?
Charm has become a high ideal for female writers these days --- that is, for women who write the short sketch and the quirky op-ed and then, every few years, slap the pieces between covers and call it a book. Nora Ephron is the queen of this genre. She writes about the most meaningless topics, but she's so clever, so in-your-ear confidential, that the pages almost turn themselves.
Wrinkles-on-the-neck may be the great crisis of Western Civilization --- at least in the part of Western Civilization that starts in Hollywood and ends in Malibu --- but in term of mental nutrition, it's pure carbs. I'm not knocking it. But an all-carb diet softens the brain.
This is a shout-out for protein, served up by a writer you don't know in a book from no publisher you ever heard of. "On My Way to Someplace Else" is short --- just 113 pages --- but it will pack a wallop for any woman who didn't get married young, didn't have kids, and has no certainty that the guy she's dating will turn out to be a boyfriend.
Sandra Hurtes is that woman. She writes and teaches in New York, and though she's a grown-up, adulthood seems to elude her. She has the usual reasons --- she wasn't sure she was a writer until she surrendered to it, pounded out a piece and sold it. And then there is her special reason. She is, as she says so succinctly, the "daughter of an Auschwitz survivor." For good measure, her father was also a survivor of the camps.
If you are a New Yorker of a certain age, that description is a dagger to the heart. Because the clichés are true. There is an over-sharing mother who tells her kid everything --- like anyone of any age could hear those stories and know what to do about them. Sandra has the right reaction "I was a good daughter and almost never made waves. I don't want to cause them more pain than they'd already endured."
Her parents wanted a life for Sandra "that held no sadness." Good luck with that. In her `20s, Hurtes tells us, she got married --- and divorced. "I realized that my bond with my parents was so tight, it had allowed no room for anyone else, not even my husband. My marriage hadn't stood a chance. I began then the very difficult process of separation."
This means Christian men. Refusing her father's gifts. Plotting a cross-country move.
It also means what I don't want to call Jewish humor. But what can you say about a piece that begins like this "After five tumultuous years in which I tried to turn the boy I fell in love with into the man my parents wanted him to be, my husband escaped into night with a toothbrush and a warning `I'll be back for the stereo.'"
Yes, these pieces are written in blood, but they're wry and very aware of their obligation to entertain. Together, they address a subject not unknown to many others --- her ideal reader is "anyone who has searched for an identity and found it in more than one place."
There's a lovely picture on the cover a laughing little Sandra and her momentarily content mother. And then there's a quotation from Liv Ullman "I often wished to rediscover within me the girl who was innocent and full of knowledge before they taught me what life was all about." Just the right set-up for a very good book.
Sandra Hurtes has a real gift - she writes about her connection to her parents, the effects of the trauma endured by a family, and how as a daughter, she is torn between their story and her own. Lovely book.
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These finely crafted essays follow the author, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, on an emotional journey of self-discovery. As a child weighted with the sadness of her parents' experiences, Hurtes desperately wants "to restore the happiness so bitterly stolen from my parents' lives." She wonders--how she could ever separate from them? Yet separate she does, as she becomes an adult, navigating life in the city she loves, New York. These essays, which are both lyrical and enlightening, may move you to tears--sometimes of pain, and sometimes, laughter. Highly recommended.
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