I’ve discovered over the decades that family narrators are as unreliable as might be suspected. Unpleasantries underplayed and nostalgia overrated. Moving to America was about reinvention. Left behind were clothes, names, occupation and rituals. Genealogical research reveals buried truths. I discovered this firsthand and had no regrets.
I’ve discovered over the decades that family narrators are as unreliable as might be suspected. Unpleasantries underplayed and nostalgia overrated. Moving to America was about reinvention. Left behind were clothes, names, occupation and rituals. Genealogical research reveals buried truths. I discovered this firsthand and had no regrets.