The Choice

people say or do when I’m not there. What might my daughters overhear? What might others tell ...

in Budapest, we would have trained together. “Pay attention!” Béla tells the girls. “She’s Hungarian, ...

Latynina’s shoulder brushes Keleti’s as they stand side by side at the awards ceremony. Keleti gr ...

* I focus on the children, on the things I can do to make all of us feel secur ...

We go to farms in Mexico for fall harvest, we ĕll ourselves with homemade tamales. Food is l ...

for my son. Béla would yell in frustration over Johnny’s challenges. (He yelled in Czech, so the ...

game. But I could tell that Audrey wasn’t joking. She really thought sirens signaled danger. at ...

best to keep separate collide. I’m sitting in a lecture hall, waiting for my introductory ...

Auschwitz,” the student explains. “He wrote this book about it, just aer the war. I think ...

adapt to the impossible and inconceivable. To endure the kapos’ beatings, to get up no matter how cold ...

have a choice. This realization will change my life. ...

CHAPTER 14 From One Survivor to Another No one heals in a straight line. One January evening in 1969, ...

thing. * * * It was an accrual of experiences, not a sudden recognition, that led me to divorce ...

analyses interesting complements to his favorite subject: history. Maybe because Béla occasiona ...

strong body. To work hard. To be a team.” I told them what my ballet teacher had told me a lifet ...

Béla’s fault that I had chosen denial, that I oen kept myself, my memories, my true opin ...

had written it for myself, it was a personal exercise, not an academic one, my ĕrst attem ...

calling: the search to make meaning in my life by helping others to make meaning, to heal so ...

low to the ground to Ęy, how fast or how slow. I could choose which landscapes to Ęy over—European cathedral ...

What I really mean—the subtext of so many of my choices and beliefs —is, “I don’t deserve to have surv ...