All My Mothers and Fathers
eBook - ePub

All My Mothers and Fathers

A Memoir

  1. 210 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

All My Mothers and Fathers

A Memoir

About this book

Shortly after his mother dies of breast cancer when he is ten years old, Michael Blumenthal discovers that she was not his biological mother, and that his aunt and uncle, immigrant chicken farmers living in Vineland, New Jersey, are really his parents.
 
As fate would have it, his adoptive father, a German-Jewish refugee raised by a loveless and embittered stepmother after his own mother died in childbirth, has inflicted on his stepson a fate uncannily—and terrifyingly—similar to his own: Having first adopted Michael, in part, to help his dying wife, he then imposes on him the same sort of penurious and loveless stepmother whom he himself had had to survive. With these revelations, the "mysteries" that seem to have permeated Michael's childhood are laid bare, triggering a quest for belonging that will infiltrate the author's entire adult life.
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Prologue
  6. 1. Beginnings
  7. 2. Golden Days
  8. 3. The Eight Days
  9. 4. Malheurs
  10. 5. Muses
  11. 6. Eggs
  12. 7. The Graduate
  13. 8. Hallowed Halls
  14. 9. Again Through New Eyes
  15. 10. Rebirths
  16. 11. She and I
  17. 12. Kafka’s Fathers
  18. Epilogue I: Haifa, Israel, December 1996
  19. Epilogue II: Jackson Heights, Queens, March 1999
  20. Postscript
  21. Acknowledgments