We are pleased to announce as a BARGAIN BOOK: KVETCH: ONE BITCH OF A LIFE--A Memoir of Music and Survival
BOOK DESCRIPTION
In "Kvetch: One Bitch of a Life," journalist Greta Beigel looks back, sometimes in horror, often with humor at (dysfunctional) Jewish family life lived under the umbrella of apartheid in South Africa, circa the '50s and '60s. While her memoir chronicles Orthodox Jewry's responses to events during that shameful era, it also explores the rituals, customs--and delicious foods associated with such a rich cultural heritage. For Greta, danger however remains omnipresent. A child piano prodigy then teen concert performer she lives at the mercy of a superambitious matriarch, desperate for entree into Jewish Society. Following a failed marriage to a nice Jewish doctor--Greta faces a choice: Stay in Africa and die a certain death--or flee to California and create anew. She chooses life. The story moves to Los Angeles, where the author metamorphoses into a music journalist, soon covering the arts for the Los Angeles Times, and joy upon joy interviewing music luminaries such as Van Cliburn, Murray Perahia and many more. But always in the background a dark familial figure hovers...
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