THE HOLOCAUST KID
Sonia Pilcer, . . Persea, $22.95 (180pp) ISBN 978-0-89255-261-0
It's not easy being "2G"—Second Generation, the child of Holocaust survivors—as Zosha, Pilcer's alter ego, tells us in this avowedly autobiographical collection. "While the survivors seem to have the ability to go on with their lives," she writes, "it is their children who spend much of their time, not to mention money, talking to Ph.D.s and MSWs." The 15 stories collected here seek to explore this paradox, though their approach feels a bit simplistic. Zosha, whose parents lived through Auschwitz and labor camps, escaping when she was one year old, chafes under the burden of remembering the Holocaust, even as she feels that it "was all mine... my private cache of suffering and obsession." Pilcer (
Reviewed on: 07/02/2001
Genre: Fiction
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