{"product_id":"9781910749593","title":"Found and Lost: Mittens, Miep, and Shovelfuls of Dirt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA luminous memoir from the Holocaust writer, Alison Leslie Gold, told through a series of letters to the living and the dead.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlison Leslie Gold is best known for her works that have kept alive stories from the time of the Holocaust, stories of courage and survival - most famously her \u003ci\u003eAnne Frank Remembered\u003c\/i\u003e, co-authored with Miep Gies (who risked her life to protect the Frank family). She has never chosen to write about her own life or what made her into a gatherer of other people's stories, until now, in \u003ci\u003eFound and Lost\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarting with her childhood experience of running her primary school 'Lost and Found' depot, Gold charts the origin of her need to save objects, stories, people - including herself - whom she has sensed to be on a road to perdition. After a series of deaths of people close to her (mother, lover, mentor, friend), she develops, though a series of letters, a meditation on aging, friendship, loss and the forces that link us to the dead. The letters tell of her early activism; her descent into alcoholism and subsequent recovery; and they tell of her discovery of the power of writing to give shape and meaning to a life. \u003ci\u003eFound and Lost\u003c\/i\u003e is both a tender memorial to the extraordinary people in her life, and a compelling tale of redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052008358128,"sku":"9781910749593","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781910749593_p0.jpg?v=1763627436","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781910749593","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}