It Was Long Ago It Was Yesterday

In the first volume of her memoir, Of Many Houses,
A Young Woman's Journey from the Third Reich to the
New World, Felicia Altman Gilbert begins her stor y in
Berlin in 1917 and continues with a rich portrait of
her youth and wanderings in a Europe torn by
violence. That volume concludes with her safe arrival
in the United States and the start of a very different
and unpredictable life in a new country. In this, the
second volume of her memoir, published at the age of
94, she looks back at her progress through adulthood,
her marriage and the raising of her children. From her
experience, lived moment by moment, she shapes an
intimate histor y of a well-lived life and of a close
family during times of change and discovery.