The Fortune Teller's Kiss

The Fortune Teller's Kiss
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 9780803243262
ISBN-13 : 080324326X
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Fortune Teller's Kiss by : Brenda Serotte

Download or read book The Fortune Teller's Kiss written by Brenda Serotte and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the memoir of a Sephardic Jewish girl living among Ashkenazi neighbors in the Bronx. She comes down with polio just before her eighth birthday. She begins a fight against immobility set within a cultural realm where Catholic and Jew and Turkish Moslem once met. Where a beautiful aunt could be abducted into a Turkish harem and another aunt could still keep the 400-year-old iron key to the family house in the Cordoba of the Spanish Inquisition.


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