The Right to Happiness

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Innovative short stories explore echoes of the Holocaust upon survivors and their children lessons of post-trauma for the 21</strong><sup style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><strong>st</strong></sup><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> century.</strong><strong style=color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Inn</strong><span style=color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>ovative short stories explore echoes of the Holocaust upon survivors and their children lessons of post-trauma for the 21</span><sup style=color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>st</sup><span style=color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> century.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In eleven compelling narratives inheritors of the Holocaust strive to seize whatever life has left to them. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>International award-winning author Helen Schary Motro's intimate and poignant fiction paints the panorama of their emotional canvas: renewal as well as trauma insight as well as sorrow ingenuity as well as loss. Some fail to recover while others do all to achieve solace. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><p>Unable to pierce her parents' wall of hidden mourning a child dreams her perished grandparents back to life.</span><span style=color: rgba(43 46 47 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)></p></span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><p>A Yiddish actor turns radio host after the war - until his language becomes obsolete. Can he reinvent himself yet again?</span><span style=color: rgba(43 46 47 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)></p></span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><p>Hoarding discarded cigarette butts from her parents' ashtrays a girl smokes in secret to mimic the grandmother who starved in the ghetto.</span><span style=color: rgba(43 46 47 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)></p></span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><p>A reluctant piano student learns that master classes teach more than concertos.</span><span style=color: rgba(43 46 47 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)></p></span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><p>A survivors' daughter yearns to live her American dream at the Thanksgiving Day Parade but the subway from Brooklyn takes her farther away.</span><span style=color: rgba(43 46 47 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)></p></span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><p>Facing Israel's imminent annihilation an assimilated survivor discovers what she really cares about.</span><span style=color: rgba(43 46 47 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)></p></span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Readers will cry at their pain will smile with recognition - may even laugh - along with Motro's moving survivors and their children as the past continues to reverberate upon them.</span></p>