A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2016 • A Junior Library Guild Fall 2016 Selection Flying Couch; Amy Kurzweil’s debut; tells the stories of three unforgettable women. Amy weaves her own coming-of-age as a young Jewish artist into the narrative of her mother; a psychologist; and Bubbe; her grandmother; a World War II survivor who escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto by disguising herself as a gentile. Captivated by Bubbe’s story; Amy turns to her sketchbooks; teaching herself to draw as a way to cope with what she discovers. Entwining the voices and histories of these three wise; hilarious; and very different women; Amy creates a portrait not only of what it means to be part of a family; but also of how each generation bears the imprint of the past.A retelling of the inherited Holocaust narrative now two generations removed; Flying Couch uses Bubbe’s real testimony to investigate the legacy of trauma; the magic of family stories; and the meaning of home. With her playful; idiosyncratic sensibility; Amy traces the way our memories and our families shape who we become. The result is this bold illustrated memoir; both an original coming-of-age story and an important entry into the literature of the Holocaust.
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