My Blog
After Long Silence
I’m sure we’ve all got stories about drastic change in our lives, serious and trivial worries (like should I just let the grey grow in?) My husband Martin and I arranged to rent an apartment in Denver last month. Our medically challenged grandson turns one...
Out of the Woodwork
My father’s paternal cousin Michal Aurbach, age 99, called me from her retirement community in Kvar Saba, in Israel. She wanted to let me know she was reading My City. I was surprised for a number of reasons. For one, the...
Starting Again
I wonder if you struggle with this. I’ve been carrying around a stack of pages from my novel for months now. It’s heavy. If I’m going to be totally honest, I’ve written two new pages over the past year. It’s traveled with me to Denver...
Readings
I’m rarely nervous. My biggest worry is that no one will actually show up. I love sharing this story, and it’s wonderful to meet so many people for whom the story resonates. I did a reading in Stockholm at the Karolinska Institute, where I’ve been...
The Long Road to Publication
I started writing Searching for Mia, then Finding Mia, and now My City of Dreams, in 2004 when my elderly father, a Viennese Holocaust survivor, began having flashbacks and nightmares about the past. I was suffering from severe depression and my dreams had...