The force of things -- Bogerts. The father and mother of lists -- Kamenetzkis. The D'Annunzio letter, or, The last of the Kamenetzkis ; The documents in the suitcase ; A "certain silence," or, The other Ugo Stille ; Death by bureaucracy ; Sergeant Michael Kamenetzki -- Bogerts. Letters home : money, clothes, and boys ; From Bauhaus to our house, or, The detective report -- Worlds collide. Worlds collide ("Don't worry about me") ; Love letters ("The hawk is biting") ; The wedding license ; Personal, confidential-- destroy after reading ; The beginning of something ;The end of something ; Friendship ; The return of Michele Kamenetzki ; Endgame ; What to keep and what to throw out -- A counter-narrative, or, The man under the rug.
Summary:
Chronicles how religious differences strengthened and weakened the relationship of the author's parents, set against the tumult and strife of the 1930s and 1940s.
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