A Different Mother - Softcover

Cobrinik, Rena Trefman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692998985 ISBN 13: 9780692998984

Publisher: Rena T./Cobrinik, 2018

Synopsis

A Different Mother reflects Rena Trefman Cobrinik’s life in a lively immigrant family. As a little girl, growing up in the Bronx during the Great Depression and World War II, she didn’t recognize the desperation or poverty. She leaned back in the comfort of Yiddish spoken at home. Struggle was a positive energy. Outsmarting life was the bottom line to many family stories. But as she grew older, as an adult responsible for her mother’s end-of-life needs, she would learn that the most amazing parts of the stories had been left out. In A Different Mother, she traces them to very personal and surprising revelations. Keywords: Memoir, Jewish, Yiddish, Immigrant, Bronx, Mother, Daughter, Aging, Eldercare, Dementia, Alzheimer's, Paternity Rena graduated from the City College of New York (CCNY) and taught at elementary schools in the South Bronx and rural New Jersey. In a “back to school” program, at Sarah Lawrence College, a creative writing course assignment became a commitment to writing this memoir. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Jersey Woman, Packentragen, Jewish Women’s Literary Annual and in Knit Lit (too). Now Rena lives in the woods of Boonton, New Jersey, with her husband and daughter, where she continues to write, hike, swim, follow snowflakes and cook chicken soup for her six grandchildren.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rena T./Cobrinik
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692998985
• ISBN 13: 9780692998984
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 234