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This wide-ranging and profoundly insightful memoir picks up where The Eyes Are The Same, Susan Gold's searing Holocaust chronicle, left off. She considers the years she spent in America, her education, her marriage and family, and her career in the precious-metals division of a vast corporation.

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""The past is a country that issues no visas,"" Susan Gold warns us. ""One can only enter it illegally."" That's exactly what this brilliantly written memoir does. Gold's perceptive prose takes us on a journey through a large part of 20th-centry history, as witnessed by a Holocaust survivor who revels in and succeeds at her new life in America, only to endure painful personal tragedies that take her back into the past she hoped to transcend."" -Alexander Motyl, Rutgers University-Newark ""Gold survived the Holocaust hiding in a barn in Ukraine with her parents. In this moving memoir, she describes how she subsequently made a life for herself in the United States. This was marked by tragedy-the death of her son and the breakup of her marriage-but also by happiness and achievement, above all the love she found with her partner David Zimmerman and her career in business in post-Communist Russia."" -Antony Polonsky, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University ""Immigrating to the U.S. from a war-torn Europe, a Jewish girl from Poland and hidden child of the Holocaust, Gold struggled with survivor's guilt for decades. Eight decades later, her memoir unveils truths that were long-buried by insufferable pain. While uprootedness and tragedy are themes woven throughout the authors' life, this memoir is a poignant reminder of the power of courage: a riveting and beautiful tale of reflection and transformation."" -Julia Sloan, professor, Columbia University; author of Learning to Think Strategically ""Gold's retelling of her life's journey conveys both poignant desperation and inspiring resilience as she created her own American life. She takes the reader from her early years of living as a Hidden Child of the Holocaust in fear and hiding, through the ebb and flow of navigating her life in America and success on Wall Street. She candidly reflects on the riveting milestones that have haunted her and transformed her. This memoir weaves together a lifetime quest for love and meaning with powerful accounts of paradox, sorrow and joy, self-doubt and courage, and tremendous perseverance. It's a heartfelt collection of memories."" -Oleg Smirnoff, International consultant

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