{"product_id":"the-butchers-daughter-a-memoir-9780692803615","title":"The Butcher's Daughter: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The Butcher's Daughter\" has been short-listed for the prestigious 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat was it like to hide with your family in the dense forests of Poland for two long years, as Mameh did, living in a hole in the ground, while alert, always alert, to the sounds of Nazis and their dogs?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow was it to be both hunter and hunted, as Tateh was, taking up arms, bartering for and stealing food, fighting for another day of life, wounded and recovering, while protecting others living in the forest-- the old, the infirm, the children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd what was it like for the narrator after the war, growing up with these two people, Mameh and Tateh, her parents, who held their stories close. And each of them haunted by the dead? \u003cem\u003eThe Butcher's Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e, lays flesh on the bones of their stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn language that is at once lyrical and graphic the book unfolds like memory, in pieces forming a whole that divides into three sections. It recounts not only the narrator's journey of growing up with these two Holocausts survivors, but as well her efforts to discover their stories and lay her own demons to rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Florence Grende\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Madison Literary Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692803615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndieReader\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/09\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrende, Florence:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Florence Grende holds an MFA from the Stonecoast writing program at the University of Southern Maine. Her stories and poems have appeared in \" Babel Fruit,\" \"Poetica,\" \"The Sun,\" \"The Berkshire Review,\" \" The Women's Times,\" \" HotMetalBridge.org.,\"in the anthologies \"Robot Hearts: True and Twisted Tales of Seeking Love in the Digital Age,\" and, in \"The Widow's Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Madison Literary Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50530230370419,"sku":"9780692803615","price":25.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_b7ef76e3-ab1e-4345-b6bb-98ab97a5739b.jpg?v=1790337381","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-butchers-daughter-a-memoir-9780692803615","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}