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HERE IS WHAT RHODA SAYS ABOUT HER BOOKS AND HER LIFE:
Rhoda: Her First Ninety Years is an honest
and candid memoir of a first generation American woman who was willing to change
the direction of her life every twelve years. Rhoda writes about the emigration
of her parents from Rumania to the United States in 1900, their struggles with strikebreakers
in Gary, Indiana, and life in the depression years in Chicago. She overcomes the
knowledge that her mother tried, but failed, to abort her. With grit and determination,
she manages to have a life filled with adventure, exuberance and joy. The curiosity
and passion that infuse the stories of Rhoda's life, her three husbands, her many
lovers, and her willingness to move from one career to another will appeal to Women
entrepreneurs, Women over forty, Political activists, Academics, Older adults, Historians,
Jews & Jewish women, and all adventurous souls who have ever swum against the current.
The
book covers Rhoda's growing up on the West Side of Chicago in the Twenties and Thirties,
Berkeley in the Forties, San Francisco in the Fifties and Sixties, and Europe, Asia
and the U.S. in the Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, and the Oughts. These stories
include sharp comments on the social, political and economic climate of the times.
Details about life in Depression era Chicago, pre-World War Two Berkeley, Bohemian
San Francisco, and experiences at the Office of War Information in Washington, D.C.
bring to life places and periods long gone. After the war, when Rhoda and her husband
move to North Beach in San Francisco, to start their leather business with Jim's
naval discharge pay, they become part of the Bohemian scene.
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RHODA AT FOUR
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