The Choice
* One day the GI and his friends come to tell us we’ll be leaving Wels, that the Russians are h ...
we will learn that their father was shot in the back as he walked between them on the Death ...
Her anxiety reminds me of our ĕrst day at Auschwitz when she stood naked with her shaved hea ...
committed to my love for Eric, to my hope that I will ĕnd him again, to seek a man’s arms to h ...
“Maybe we’ll go to America too,” Magda says. She must be thinking of Aunt Matilda, in the Bronx. Al ...
chair listening to Wagner, how she would weep. I will go to the symphony. And for Klara, ...
CHAPTER 8 In Through a Window We step off the train in Košice. Our hometown is no longer in Hun ...
Don’t let what we’ve seen hurt you. Don’t make it worse. Don’t ask us what happened. Don’ ...
Danube, Klara tells us, blunt, matter-of-fact, but when the last remaining Jews in Hungary were ...
Klara tells another story with a happy ending. With the knowledge that we’d been evacuated to the ...
Army, and tried to learn what had become of us. ey had no information about our family, but ...
Magda rages at the empty space. With the piano gone, something in her is missing too. A pie ...
One day a package arrives from Aunt Matilda. Valentine Avenue, the Bronx, the return address reads. She send ...
When Klara has to travel to Prague for another concert, Csicsi offers to go with her. “Shall I bake a ...
something from me in return. Not gratitude or appreciation. Something deeper. I can feel that she r ...
togetherness. We never hold one another and cry. But with Gaby I can allow myself to grieve. One day I ...
Magda will stay at the apartment. Aer the effort of reclaiming it, on the off-chance of an unexpected visit ...
cuts. I don’t know why it bothers me so much. Is it that his girlfriend is alive while my boyfriend ...
man or his Hungarian sarcasm get the last word. I will show him that the buoyant dancer still lives in ...
me like a tide. “Don’t laugh,” the doctors had warned me, as though laughter was a constant temptation, ...
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