Amazon says: “Originally published in 1964 and hailed by critics, Other People’s Houses is Lore Segal’s internationally acclaimed semi-autobiographical first novel.” That shocked me b/c the copy I got from the library does not say “:A Novel” as it does on this book cover and no where does it say that it’s semi-autobiographical. Why does it feel different knowing that it’s not pure memoir? And why isn’t it? I wish I knew.
Mrs. Segal was one of the featured adults in the movie “Into the Arms of Strangers,” that chronicled children rescued from the Nazi’s by England’s kindertransport. The first part of the book about her time in England was fascinating. I found the later part, about her family’s emigration to the Dominican Republic exhausting. Probably because it was. See the movie, please.
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