The Fortune Teller's Kiss
Author | : Brenda Serotte |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780803243262 |
ISBN-13 | : 080324326X |
Rating | : 4/5 (26X Downloads) |
Download or read book The Fortune Teller's Kiss written by Brenda Serotte and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the memoir of a Sephardic Jewish girl living among Ashkenazi neighbors in the Bronx. She comes down with polio just before her eighth birthday. She begins a fight against immobility set within a cultural realm where Catholic and Jew and Turkish Moslem once met. Where a beautiful aunt could be abducted into a Turkish harem and another aunt could still keep the 400-year-old iron key to the family house in the Cordoba of the Spanish Inquisition.