The fortune teller s kiss 1st Edition by Brenda Serotte ISBN 080324326X 9780803253872

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ISBN 10: 080324326X 
ISBN 13: 9780803253872
Author: Brenda Serotte

There was always the incantation: “Whoever wishes you harm, may harm come to them!” And just in case that didn’t work, there were garlic and cloves to repel the Evil Eye—or, better yet, the dried foreskin from a baby boy’s circumcision, ground to a fine powder. But whatever precautions Brenda Serotte was subjected to, they were not enough. Shortly before her eighth birthday, in the fall of 1954, she came down with polio—painfully singled out in a world already marked by differences. Her bout with the dreaded disease is at the heart of this poignant and heartbreakingly hilarious memoir of growing up a Sephardic Jew among Ashkenazi neighbors in the Bronx.

This was a world of belly dancers and fortune tellers, shelter drills and vast quantities of Mediterranean food; a world of staunchly joined and endlessly contrary aunts and uncles, all drawn here in loving, merciless detail. The Fortune Teller’s Kiss is a heartfelt tribute to a disappearing culture and a paean to the author’s truly quirky clan, especially her beloved champion, her father. It is also a deft and intimate cultural history of the Bronx fifty years ago and of its middle-class inhabitants, their attitudes toward contagious illness, womanly beauty, poverty, and belonging.

The fortune teller s kiss 1st Table of contents:

1. Turks (Likely an introductory chapter setting the scene of her family’s heritage and early life in the Bronx)
2. Fortuna (This title directly relates to the fortune teller aspect of the book, possibly introducing the grandmother’s abilities and the family’s superstitions)
3. Lost (This chapter likely deals with the onset of polio and the dramatic shift in her life and family’s life due to the illness and its treatment)
4. Contagious (This is a known chapter, likely focusing on the period of illness, isolation, and the impact of polio on her and her family, as well as the medical and social attitudes towards contagious diseases at the time)
5. Grace
6. Northern Lights
7. Quiche Lorraine
8. Celebrity

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