The First and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich
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In February 2001 Sonia Reich left her home in Skokie, Illinois, with a few clothes packed into two shopping bags. She was convinced someone meant to kill her. A Polish Jew who had survived the Holocaust by constantly moving, she had come to America with her husband, and they had raised their son to keep their Jewish identity hidden. Only after settling in Skokie, a suburb full of survivors, did the family begin to live openly as Jews, and even then the parents shared almost nothing about the years before. This memoir follows the author as he grows up in that community and finds a kind of freedom in jazz. It also traces his effort to understand his past and his mother's illness, which he came to see as late-onset post-traumatic stress disorder.
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