The weight of grief, fear, and bigotry. -REVEREND NANETTE SAWYER, author of Hospitality-The Sacred Art Intersects with many Black American familie.
This Memoir has truly universal reach. -VALARIE KAUR, bestselling author of See No Stranger, founder of the Revolutionary Love Project This captivating story of survival and resilience is especially timely, given the rise in antisemitism and racist violence in our country. -MARCI SHIMOFF, #1 NY Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason With courage and imagination, Ani Tuzman gives us an irresistible invitation to see no stranger. -RAFFI CAVOUKIAN, singer, author, founder of Raffi Foundation for Child Honouring Inspires us to recognize the invincible light we each carry and to look for that light in each other.
Her vignettes read like poetry, gems of sympathy, understanding, resistance.
PRAISE for Angels on the Clothesline Tuzman transforms painful memory into a triumph of empathy, an epiphany of love.
Told with tender and unflinching immediacy, Ani\'s story is an invitation to embrace ourselves and each other with the compassion that can free us.
Written in compelling vignettes, Angels on the Clothesline arouses awe for the human spirit-revealing how easily we can wound and be wounded and, through all this, choose to love.
We walk in young Ani\'s shoes, see through her eyes, and witness, despite the burden of trauma, a child\'s innate wonder that will not be extinguished and ultimately protects her.
What opens up is an intimate account of vulnerability, creativity, and irrepressible resilience.
In her memoir, Angels on the Clothesline, Ani, the woman, bridges time to be the presence missing from her childhood.
She also doesn\'t dare talk about the ecstasy of spinning in a meadow, the solace of writing to an unseen companion, or about any of the other secret sorrows and joys she believes that she has no right to feel.
Ani doesn\'t tell her parents that every day on the school bus her hair is searched for her Jew-Devil horns.
Yet on the farm that is her home, Ani can\'t help but find beauty and joy.
The daughter of Holocaust survivors and recent immigrants, Ani Tuzman grows up in a world darkened not only by her parents\' unfathomable grief and rage, but also by the bewildering bigotry of her American neighbors, schoolmates, and teachers.
The innate wonder and light that no measure of darkness can extinguish.
The imprint of trauma.
The weight of grief, fear, and bigotry
