Tearing the Silence: On Being German in America

Ursula Hegi grew up in Germany and moved to the United States at age eighteen. As she grew older and raised a family, questions about her roots and her native land haunted her until, at last, she felt compelled to write about them. Tearing the Silence brings together her interviews with dozens of German-born Americans, and their confrontations with the taboo of the Holocaust.

Author: Ursula Hegi
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Published: 07/03/1998
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.54w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780684846118

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.2
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 68850 / Tearing the Silence: On Being German in America

About the Author
Hegi, Ursula: - Ursula Hegi is the author of The Worst Thing I've Done, Sacred Time, Hotel of the Saints, The Vision of Emma Blau, Tearing the Silence, Salt Dancers, Stones from the River, Floating in My Mother's Palm, Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories, Intrusions, and Trudi & Pia. She teaches writing at Stonybrook's Southhampton Campus and she is the recipient of more than thirty grants and awards.