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Blood Flow is a journey set in motion by the suicide of Larry Bograd's physician father, just two weeks after Larry's bar mitzvah. In the decades that follow, Larry interviews relatives and friends of his father, Nathan, determined to understand the life and death of the man he had only known through the eyes of a child. Larry's investigation takes him behind the Iron Curtain to his father's Eastern European birthplace, and to Trieste, Italy, where his father served in the Occupation Medical Corps after World War II, only to return home a troubled man. On the trail of his father, Larry faces a life-threatening medical crisis of his own. Blood Flow travels emotional landscapes of place, time, and memory, in a quest to understand an immigrant's turbulent life and its impact on the first-generation American child he left in sudden trauma and grief. Along the way, the author discovers what matters most in his life.

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'Larry Bograd's deft look back at his personal history from across the span of decades is clear-eyed, propulsive, moving, and true.' -Meg Wolitzer, the New York Times bestselling author

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Larry Bograd's first book, Felix in the Attic, won the Bank Street College Irma Simonton Black Best Book for Children award, and his novel Los Alamos Light was selected as a UNESCO Book for Peace. His publications include anthologized short stories, and books for Farrar/Straus, Harper, and Macmillan, which have been translated into Japanese, French, Swedish, Danish and German. His career also includes playwriting, screenwriting and documentary filmmaking. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

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