A woman dies leaving her daughter a journal in which she describes for the first time how she survived six years in the brutal Nazi slave labor camps in Germany and Poland. Hanna Neuman was an eleven year old child when, through an accident of fate, she was separated from her parents and her two sisters. Based on historical facts, the novel details life in pre-World War II Germany and day to day in the camps where Jews were sent to be exterminated.
This book asks the question: Would you give up your only child for the promise of immense wealth? Antonio DiVincenzo is a nine year-old boy living with his artist mother in suburban New Jersey when his idyllic life is suddenly and dramatically turned upside down, when his mother abandons him to live in Paris with a French billionaire. His neighbor and adult friend, Abby, who is the book’s narrator takes him into her home and her heart. Eventually his biological mother tries to reclaim him and the two women battle for his love. The book tells how Abby reshapes his life and how this exceptionally gifted child copes with both newfound happiness and misfortunes as he passes through childhood, adolescence and eventually into early manhood.
Thanksgiving Dinner is a collection of twelve short stories about women at a crossroads in their lives and the very different directions they take. One story is about a woman suffering from depression, who is driven to commit an unspeakable act. Another story involves a dying woman contemplating the failed relationships in her life. Still another story portrays a woman struggling to deal with an act of betrayal.
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