The Choice
a voice comes to me, from the bottom of the mountains, from the very center of the Earth. Up through the flo ...
on. But the envelope isn’t from Eric. And it doesn’t contain my future. It holds my past. It holds a pic ...
again. * * * A few days later, a thick letter arrives, addressed to me. It’s from Béla. It ...
market when she saw a group of SS soldiers. She panicked. She ran up to them and shouted a confessi ...
near. I don’t even Ęirt—not in a romantic way. We are like two shipwrecked people staring at ...
someone with so much energy and life. I am glad to have her blessing. And yet how easily I could have ...
CHAPTER 9 Next Year in Jerusalem I marry Béla Eger on November 12, 1946, at the city hall in Koši ...
put a happy spin on the day, but all of the absences tug at us. Orphans marry orphans. Later I will ...
will be found out. My transgression is life. And the beginnings of a cautious joy. On the train home ...
feel useless. “Please teach me to cook,” I ask Mariska one day. “I don’t ever want you in this kitchen,” ...
more loud knocks on the door disrupting sleep, I tell myself. Only the comfort of eiderdowns and cle ...
determination. I don’t hide in the corners. I gain ĕy pounds, and when I walk in the ...
Sydney too. But it is so far away. “What about your career?” I ask Klara. “There are orchestras ...
from Laci. “He got away,” Magda says. “So can I.” To me, El Paso looks like the end of the Earth. “Has ...
* Béla is out of town when I feel the ĕrst contractions early one September mo ...
goose for having broken up the engagement between Béla and her friend, the friend who is no ...
that when, in November 1948, she is fourteen months old and falls ill, I don’t believe it at ĕrst. ...
Marianne has fallen back into a ĕtful sleep. I must keep her hydrated, but she won’t accept wat ...
By morning, Marianne is well enough to smile. She falls asleep suckling. Béla kisses her forehead, ...
* On December 31, 1948, Marta and Bandi come to our house to welcome the New ...
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