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Author Slouka, Mark, author.

Title Nobody's son : a memoir / Mark Slouka.

Publisher New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2016]

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LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Curtis ML Adult Non Fiction  813.54 Slouka nob 2016    AVAILABLE  
 Lithgow PL Biography  B SLOUKA    AVAILABLE  
 Patten Free Biography  B Slouka    AVAILABLE  
 Rice PL Nonfiction  BIO Slouka    AVAILABLE  
 Rumford Non Fic  B Slo    AVAILABLE  
Edition First edition.
Physical Description 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka's parents survived the Nazis only to be forced to then escape the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their own country, the newlyweds joined a tide of refugees moving from Innsbruck to Sydney to New York, dragging with them a history of blood and betrayal that their son would be born into. From World War I to the present, Slouka pieces together a remarkable story of refugees and war, displacement and denial, admitting into evidence memories, dreams, stories, the lies we inherit and the lies we tell -- in an attempt to reach his mother, the figure at the center of the labyrinth.
Subject Slouka, Mark -- Family.
Slouka, Mark -- Childhood and youth.
Czech Americans -- Biography.
Authors, American -- Biography.
Mothers and sons -- New York (State) -- Biography.
Family secrets -- New York (State)
New York (State) -- Biography.