In My Mother's House AUTH-13648743 and appreciation of the arts

and appreciation of the arts

The result was the Epistle to the Romans

spewing ash that blots out the sun

---The Saturday Evening Post

What seems easy in theory can become tangled in practice

In My Mother's House AUTH-13648743 and appreciation of the artsIn My Mother's House is a beautiful, haunting, and expertly told novel about a daughter's obsession to understand her mother's commitment to silence about their family's experiences during WWII Vienna. The story of Elizabeth and her mother Jenny is remarkable for its fullness of details: the pieces of family silver the grandmother mails to Jenny, piece by piece, over the years; Jenny's vivid memories of her uncle's viola d'amore lessons; the smell of