Deanna Shapiro looks back at the Jewish immigrant family that
shaped her with honesty, understanding, forgiveness, and
admiration. Moving with ease and grace between poetry and prose,
she addresses familiar themes of immigrant life, such as uprooting,
sacrifice, loyalty and the pull and push of assimilation, through a
uniquely personal and gendered lens. Gail Reimer Executive Director
Jewish Women's Archive
Deanna Shapiro's latest book, "The Place You Live In: A
Multigenerational Immigrant Story," is the perfect blend between
prose narrative and poetry. Shapiro's stunning skill for poetry
complements the story of her grandparent's journey from Galicia to
the Lower East Side of New York City. The book also tells the tale
of the family's life in the Bronx and the Catskill Mountains in the
1940s and 1950s. As a descendant of immigrants, readers can easily
identify with both the pathos and humor of Shapiro's family's
story. It's a book to be read and savored slowly, like a tasty home
cooked meal. Sandra Stillman Gartner Co-author of "To Life A
Celebration of Vermont Jewish Women"
In this lovingly written memoir, Deanna Shapiro, recalls the
perspective of a quiet child in a large, outspoken family,
navigating America in the mid-20th century from Tar Beach in the
Bronx to False Porch in the Catskills. The complexities of
immigration, ambition, and tradition are played out in prose and
poetry, the family portrayed with personality and imagery, revealed
by Shapiro within a "culture of small comforts." Judith Chalmer
Author of "Out of History's Junk Jar"
Deanna Shapiro did the family research many of us only talk
about doing. Sharing her very personal memories and reflections of
family members and family dynamics in a wonderful balance of
narrative and poetry, Deanna takes us into the world of her
immigrant family. It is a story which echoes the experience of the
hundreds of thousands of Jewish families who left Eastern Europe
for the United States at the turn of the 20th Century. It is the
story of family, memory, the desire to fit in and assimilate,
stories of personal successes and failures. In her quiet,
unassuming voice, Deanna touches on the profound changes to family,
religion and personal identity that have occurred over the past
century. It is a window on "from where we have come." Better or
worse than where we are? A question for each of us to consider.
Rabbi Ira J. Schiffer Associate Chaplain Charles P. Scott Center
for Spiritual & Religious Life Middlebury College
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