Money-Bags and Titles: A Hit at the Follies of the Age (1850)

Ashes Left to Linger takes the reader on a dark and poignant journey into the heart and mind of a troubled holocaust survivoras daughter consumed with a perennial, innate gnawing to exorcize the demons from her father s past, now transplanted to her. She was spurred by a burning need to visit a Nazi death camp as an antidote to all the genetically transmitted hurts she grew up with, to perhaps find some answers as to the why of it, which may still be roaming in the silence of that faraway place, blood- and ash-stained by her people s catastrophic trials. There, we follow her as she experiences some measure of healing, emerging out of the painful thoughts and feelings and memories that surfaced during the soul-jarring trek. Expressed through heartfelt poems and free verse that flow from page to page like a liberated ache, Ashes Left to Linger is so heart-wrenching, it is in fact, at times, difficult to differentiate between the survivor and the offspring. Inspired, in part, by actual events in the author s life, this strong, passionately written, semi-autobiographical dramatization is all at once both thought-provoking and telling; one that is sure to wholly engage and linger for a long time in the reader s mind and soul.