I will speak about my two worlds—my Orthodox Jewish childhood detailed in my memoir What Lies Within, and the discovery of my Italian Catholic birth family more than 50 years later—to a private gathering on Sunday, January 10, 2016. Stories about my second world have appeared in three anthologies and will be compiled into the memoir ‘What Took You So Long?’ scheduled to be published in late 2016.
In this book I describe how my birth family practiced omerta, which is Italian for a code of silence. Only my birth mother and father, two aunts, and two uncles knew of my existence until the day I found my first cousin via the Internet. They lived only five miles from where I was raised, and we frequented some of the same stores and events. Stay tuned for this almost unbelievable tale, and consider re-reading What Lies Within to place it in context.
My Two Worlds
