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How to Share an Egg by Bonny Reichert

How to Share an Egg

A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty

by Bonny Reichert

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  • Jan 2025, 304 pages
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Superb memoir of food and family
Bonny Reichert grew up hearing her Holocaust survivor father telling her "Sweetheart, do you hear me? It's okay. It's over and we survived." But what Ms. Reichert comes to understand - through painful discussions with her father, travel back to Poland, and through the excavation of her own anxieties and fears, that physical survival does not necessarily equate with psychic survival.

When a parent survives a horror, how much is transmitted on a deep emotional level to the children? Reichert explores this issue through childhood memories and her adult life, but this is not a book about - or solely aboutmore
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