Building Life

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>Building Life</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(36 36 36 1)> is the second volume of an unconventional memoir from the highly original writer Sylvia Baer. Through essays and photographs-many of which have been shared worldwide on social media-Baer tells the stories of five generations of her remarkable family as well as stories of their neighbors in the buildings and communities she grew up in.  </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>With great grandparents who lived under pogroms in Eastern Europe; grandparents who escaped the Holocaust to Uruguay where she was born; a grandfather who was a celebrated engineer and German immigrant to the United States in the 1920s; parents from diverse cultures and languages; her own United States immigrant experiences in the late 1950s; and stories of the many people who helped guided and influenced her during her childhood Baer tells her own family's story an American story and a universal human story. Vivid family photographs illuminate Baer's lovely compelling essays. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>This second volume also includes powerful vignettes of Baer's students-just a few of the thousands of students she has taught (and learned from) over the course of her fifty-year career. </span></p><p><br></p>