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The fortune teller's kiss / Brenda Serotte.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Serotte, Brenda, author.
- Series:
- American lives.
- American lives
- American Lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Serotte, Brenda--Childhood and youth.
- Serotte, Brenda.
- Jews--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Jews.
- Sephardim--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Sephardim.
- Poliomyelitis--Patients--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Poliomyelitis.
- Jews, Turkish--New York (State)--New York--Anecdotes.
- Jews, Turkish.
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.)--Biography.
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 218 p., [12] p. of plates ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; London, [England] : University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the memoir of a Sephardic Jewish girl living among Ashkenazi neighbors in the Bronx. She comes down with polio just before her eighth birthday. She begins a fight against immobility set within a cultural realm where Catholic and Jew and Turkish Moslem once met. Where a beautiful aunt could be abducted into a Turkish harem and another aunt could still keep the 400-year-old iron key to the family house in the Cordoba of the Spanish Inquisition.
- Contents:
- Turks
- Fortuna
- Lost
- Contagious
- Grace
- Northern lights
- Quiche lorraine
- Celebrity.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-46625-1
- 9786610466252
- 0-8032-5387-7
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