Luisa Smith

• Sep-2000
• / General Fiction
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A Father's Love is an autobiographical novel about childhood suffering and endurance. The story opens in 1951, when Leah, age six, a child of Holocaust survivors, arrives with her family in New York from Displaced Person's Camps in Germany. What foll...

• Apr-2001
• / General Fiction
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Honor Thy Father and Mother is an unflinching portrayal of family cruelties. Eighteen year old Nora, a child of Holocause survivors, struggles to negotiate life with parents who are both victims and perpetrators. The story opens as she runs from an a...

• Jun-2002
• / Psychological Suspense
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In An Angle of Light a young woman in five different stages of life struggles to establish a coherent identity. Cut off from memories of sexual abuse, compelled to relive what she cannot remember, she is driven to constantly re-invent herself. Unable...

• Dec-2002
• / Literary
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When twenty-three year old Ruth rents a Manhattan apartment with her friend Selma she is a chrysalis of herself, cut off from the dark events that have shaped her. Faced with failed intimacies, disturbed relations with her Holocaust survivor parents ...

• Jul-2003
• / General Fiction
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In MY SINS REMEMBERED Vivian is immediately spellbound by her older, charismatic analyst, Dr. Berg. Within a short time what begins as therapy becomes seduction, which in turn, gradually evolves into an abusive affair. As Vivian struggles to extricat...

• Jul-2010
• / Literary
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The autobiographical novel,Memory and Desire, traces the gradual but inexorable disintegration of a family. At the outset, when thirty-nine year old Daria Khasmanov recovers memories of her fathers prolonged sexual assaults, she cannot connect the pa...