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Loading... Lost in America: A Journey with My Fatherby Sherwin B. Nuland
None. 7/2012 - Cyrille Cobe : I almost rejected this gem for thinking the beginning words were far more cerebral and the topic far more depressing than I wanted for a summer read. However, I gave it one more try and found the story touching, poignant, and relevant. The author, known for other works including “How We Die”, is an excellent writer with a gift for sharing his extraordinary observations about human behavior. This father son story is an eye opener that in a few pages speaks volumes about family dynamics and the legacies we have received and will leave behind. Anyone who grew up in the Bronx will enjoy this for the setting at the very least.  bilib | Jul 12, 2012 |  Skilled surgeon and National Book Award Winner Sherwin Nuland writes a heart-wrenchingly painful memoir about growing up in immigrant New York in the 30s and 40s. Russian Jews, struggling to make ends meet in their southwest Bronx neighborhood, Nuland’s Mother, Father and older brother shared close quarters with his maternal Grandma Bubbeh and Aunt Rose. While the women of the family were affectionate with deep ties to their extended family, Sherwin’s father was domineering, angry and distant. Never gaining proficiency in English and plagued with a progressively crippling physical condition, Meyer Nuland often required his youngest son to assist him, a task that never ceased to embarrass Sherwin and that fed his growing anger and resentment toward his father, who remained always an outsider in his adopted homeland. (  ) fieldsli | Apr 20, 2012 | About a son and father, often at odds, their loyalty to one another and the obvious love displayed in hidden ways. I shed tears as I thought of my own aging father and the too often silent love that connects us. ( ) annaj0013 | Apr 3, 2007 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0375412948, Hardcover)He walks with me through every day of my life, in that unsteady, faltering gait that so embarrassed me when I was a boy. Always, he is holding fast to the upper part of my right arm . . . As we make our way together, my father I called him Daddy when I was small, because it sounded American and that is how he so desperately wanted things to seem is speaking in the idiosyncratic rhythms of a self-constructed English.So Sherwin Nuland introduces Meyer Nudelman, his father, a man whose presence continues to haunt Nuland to this day. Meyer Nudelman came to America from Russia at the turn of the twentieth century, when he was nineteen. Pursuing the immigrant s dream of a better life but finding the opposite, he lived an endless round of frustration, despair, anger, and loss: overwhelmed by the premature deaths of his first son and wife; his oldest surviving son disabled by rheumatic fever in his teens; his youngest son, Sherwin, dutiful but defiant, caring for him as his life, beset by illness and fierce bitterness, wound to its unalterable end. Lost in America, Nuland s harrowing and empathetic account of his father s life, is equally revealing about the author himself. We see what it cost him to admit the inextricable ties between father and son and to accept the burden of his father s legacy. In Lost in America, Sherwin Nuland has written a memoir at once timeless and universal. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:36:15 -0500) No library descriptions found. |
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