By Anca Vlasopolos
ISBN-10: 023112130X
ISBN-13: 9780231121309
No go back Address is a brilliant memoir of a existence in exile and a poignant meditation on excitement and loss, repression and transgression, and the complexities of affection below harsh human stipulations. In recounting her life's trip from Romania to Paris and Brussels, then directly to the U.S., Anca Vlasopolos writes movingly of the bizarre attributes of displacement within the modern world--the hyphenated, ambiguous identities; the purgatory during which immigrants look ahead to move to a different nation; the mysterious nostalgia for areas and occasions dimly recalled. all through, she describes the consistent look for a spot to actually name home.
Vlasopolos renders a transparent and loving portrait of her mom, an Auschwitz survivor courageously elevating a tender lady through herself after the dying of her husband, a political dissident. She information their years of limbo in Brussels and Paris and of payment in Detroit, Michigan, in addition to her final selection to spot the USA as domestic, encouraged by way of the robust multicultural caliber that enables such a lot of others to do the same.
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I asked, but what I wanted to know was why the men who knew whose child I was would teach me a word like that. “Because people are cruel and stupid,” my mother said, and gently disengaged me from her lap. I thought of my father and his missing right arm, which had never seemed a liability to me before, but rather something that made him the immensely interesting person he was. After he’d been in jail, he could occupy no government post, which meant no post since the government was sole employer.
His outrage at the lese-majesté only prompted us to try again. His grandmother patrolling behind him only spurred us on to greater ingenuity and daring. As long as he wore that hat, we could challenge his sovereignty. Then, one day, his grandmother cornered us and herded us together in the courtyard, forcing us against the cement wall of one of the grass containers, now desolate brown in the frosty air. With Gatekeepers her grandchild beside her, she lectured us at nauseating length about our cruelty and evil nature, about how none of us would come to any good, about how we were all doomed partly because, she hinted, of our accursed race (most of us were Jewish) and partly because of our accursed class—we were almost all children of intellectuals.
I’d had no intimations of his coming. I suppose my mother thought it best not to prepare me, should the government reverse itself on the sentence of a year and time served. “He’s lost a lot of weight,” she said. ” I thought my mother for once was being silly; in the rush of joy at the news, why on earth would I care about my father’s weight? I ran into my parents’ bedroom, where first my view was blocked by a number of people standing around the bed; then I saw my father lying in bed in the middle of the day, his hand stretched toward the nightstand, on which there was a glass of lemonade.
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