{"id":8450,"date":"2020-03-30T08:30:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T12:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=8450"},"modified":"2020-03-30T08:30:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T12:30:29","slug":"other-peoples-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=8450","title":{"rendered":"Other People’s Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Memoir is not\nmy favorite genre, but lately I\u2019ve read a couple of interesting ones\u2014about a\nmisbegotten woman and an idolized father\u2014and two nonfiction stories about the\ntrials of war, one with a happy ending, one not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

****Celibacy: A Love Story<\/a><\/strong>
By Mimi Bull – The book\u2019s subtitle as the punchline, \u201cMemoir of a Catholic Priest\u2019s Daughter.\u201d As a child in a world of secrets, she was adopted by an older woman and her twenty-something daughter. It doesn\u2019t surprise that her \u201csister\u201d turns out to be her mother. Only after the mother dies does Mimi learn who her father was. Despite the lack of suspense, the book is fascinating. The adult Mimi and her husband lived in Istanbul, in Sedona, in Vienna. A unique story, charmingly told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

**The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit<\/a><\/strong>
By Lucette Lagnado \u2013 I heard about this book while I was in Egypt, a country that once had a significant Jewish population, until Egyptian President Nasser forced them to leave. To the child Lucette, Cairo and her family\u2019s apartment were paradise, and her father was king. When they are exiled, a Jewish aid agency finds them a disreputable lodging in Paris and an unsatisfactory apartment in New York. Lucette\u2019s father\u2019s business is murky; in New York, he sells fake Italian neckties. The family hates its new life. Lucette blindly adored her father, but I cannot tell you why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

****Escape from Paris<\/a><\/strong>
By Stephen Harding \u2013 This is the true story of a group of American airmen shot down over France and the complicated escape routes the French set up for them. Danger is on all sides. One of the safe houses is right under the nose of the Nazis, in the apartment of the caretaker of the H\u00f4tel des Invalides, site of Napoleon\u2019s tomb. Very exciting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

***The 21<\/a><\/strong>
By Martin Mosebach \u2013 As the cover proclaims, this is \u201ca journey into the land of Coptic martyrs.\u201d On February 15, 2015, twenty-one young Egyptian men, ISIS captives, were marched onto a beach in Libya and beheaded. The video recording of that event went around the world. What was most striking was the dignity and faith they maintained until the end. The author sets out trying to learn about them, their home villages, and the faith that supported them. A bit philosophical for me, but I read it to pay my respects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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