Lucienne S. Bloch's beautifully written personal essays explore her
world on the Upper West Side of New York City. Growing up in the 1950s
as the daughter of refugees from Hitler's Europe who longed for their
former lives and culture, these essays explore her youth, her mother's
Viennese upbringing, her father's work in the diamond business and long
battle with Alzheimer's, her typewriter, the landscapes of New York, her
ongoing sense of alienation, and her development as a writer.
Readers will be swept up in the graceful prose that distinguishes
Lucienne S. Bloch's award-winning work. The universal themes of memory,
belonging, family, identity, survival, and aging are artfully woven
throughout the essays in Whistling in the Dark and will resonate with
readers of all ages and backgrounds.