Bending Toward the Sun: A Mother and Daughter Memoir Paperback - 2010
by Gilbert-Lurie, Leslie
- Used
- Paperback
From Holocaust survivor Rita Lurie and her daughter, Leslie, comes this beautiful dual memoir of a unique family bond, forged in the wake of a brutal terror.
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Details
- Title Bending Toward the Sun: A Mother and Daughter Memoir
- Author Gilbert-Lurie, Leslie
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Date 2010-09-07
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR013558260
- ISBN 9780061776724 / 0061776726
- Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.86 x 5.28 x 0.94 in (19.96 x 13.41 x 2.39 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Holocaust
- Topical:
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the rear cover
"A memoir that takes us through many worlds, through heartache and noble hopes, through the mysteries of family love. . . . Read Bending Toward the Sun and enrich your life."--#8212;Rabbi David Wolpe, author of Why Faith Matters
A miraculous lesson in courage and recovery, Bending Toward the Sun tells the story of a unique family bond forged in the wake of brutal terror.
Rita Lurie was five years old when she was forced to flee her home in Poland to hide from the Nazis in a cramped, dark attic with fourteen members of her family. Young Rita watched her younger brother and her mother die before her eyes. But the tragedy of the Holocaust was only the beginning of Rita's story.
Decades later, Rita's daughter Leslie began probing the traumatic events of her mother's childhood to discover how Rita's pain has affected not only Leslie's life and outlook but that of her own daughter, Mikaela, as well. The result is Bending Toward the Sun, a collaboration between mother and daughter that brings together the stories of three generations of a family to understand the legacy that unites, inspires, and haunts them all.
Leslie Gilbert Lurie has served as president of the Los Angeles County Board of Education. Formerly an executive at NBC, where she worked on such hit shows as Cheers, Family Ties, Saved by the Bell, and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Gilbert-Lurie lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.
