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How I Came Into My Inheritance eBooks
by DOROTHY GALLAGHER
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How I Came Into My Inheritance Summary
| Gallagher presents the true story of her own family of Russian-immigrant Jews who tried to ignore the realities of the new world in which their daughter had to make her way. This episodic family saga is told in a vivid, ironic, and completely original style, offering a complete world, as singularly American in its way as those of cowboys and Indians, Puritan preachers, and robber barons. |
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Dorothy Gallagher began her literary career fabricating stories about celebrities for a pulp magazine. Nothing she invented, however, could rival the facts surrounding her own family. In a singular voice-intimate, fierce, hilarious-Gallagher takes you into the heart of her Russian Jewish heritage with stories as elegant and stylish as fiction. From the wrenching last stages of her parents' lives, Gallagher moves back through time: to her parents' beginnings, the adventures of her extended family, and the communist ideology to which they cling. Her aunt Lily sells lingerie to prostitutes; a family friend is found murdered in a bathtub; her cousin Meyer returns to the Ukraine to find his village near death from starvation; and a young Gallagher endures sessions in self-criticism at a Workers' Children's camp. Together these episodes tell the larger story of a generation living through tumultuous history, and record the acts of loving defiance of a daughter on her path to independence. |
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