![]() emerges as a quiet heroine." – BookPage- BookPage Recommended." – Library Journal- Library Journal "Written with a reporter's flair for people and places. I could not read quickly enough as the Sabars worked to resurrect the past." – Elle magazine, Readers' Prize selection, October 2008- Elle Magazine A never-ending parade of colorful characters. ![]() ![]() "A wonderful, enlightening journey, a voyage with the power to move readers deeply even as it stretches across differences of culture, family, and memory." – Christian Science Monitor- Christian Science MonitorĪ "remarkable new memoir" – Philadelphia Inquirer- Philadelphia InquirerĪ "thoughtful, touching book. This book, he writes, is a chance to make amends"– New York Times Sunday Book Review - New York Times Book Review Sabar once looked at his father with shame, scornful of the alien who still bore scars on his back from childhood bloodlettings. A personal undertaking for a son who admits he never understood his unassuming, penny-pinching immigrant father, a man who spent three decades obsessively cataloging the words of his moribund mother tongue. ![]()
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