The Watchmaker's Daughter heartbreaking and funny
Launch Oct 11th, featured in Vanity Fair's Hot Type The Watchmaker's Daughter heartbreaking and funny The Watchmaker’s Daughter by Sonia Taitz: Extraordinary, wise, heartbreaking and funny Sonia Taitz’s The Watchmaker’s Daughter (McWitty Press, October) is an extraordinary memoir -- wise, heartbreaking and funny. I love this book, which reveals the unassimilated soul behind Marjorie Morningstar, the ethnic origins of Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying , and the ambitions that fueled Natalie Wood, another dark-haired immigrant’s daughter. The Watchmaker’s Daughter is about black-haired Sonia, growing up the child of Holocaust survivors in the 60’s in New York neighborhoods rough and middling. You experience the clash between kids eager for a free American life and survivor parents, traumatized and working hard for a living. Young Sonia tries hard to reconcile her own desires with her parents’ insular world. She also w...