Fortune Teller's Kiss

Name: Fortune Teller's Kiss
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ISBN: 9780803243538

ISBN-10: 0803243537

ISBN-13: 9780803243538

Edition: N/A

Authors: Brenda Serotte

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There was always the incantation: “Whoever wishes you harm, may harm come to them!” And just in case that didn’t work, there were garlic and cloves to repel the Evil Eye—or, better yet, the dried foreskin from a baby boy’s circumcision, ground to a fine powder. But whatever precautions Brenda Serotte was subjected to, they were not enough. Shortly before her eighth birthday, in the fall of 1954, she came down with polio—painfully singled out in a world already marked by differences. Her bout with the dreaded disease is at the heart of this poignant and heartbreakingly hilarious memoir of growing up a Sephardic Jew among Ashkenazi neighbors in the Bronx.This was a world of belly dancers and…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 2/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.84" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English