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About the Book
The memoir of a girl, born in 1931 - the start of the Great Depression
- to wealth and privilege, watching the money go down the drain
until there was nothing. She watched, listened and absorbed her
family disintegrating yet staying together in a multi-generational
household. It wasn't only money that drove them apart. The family
survived at great emotional cost, the girl watching and listening
and finally here, telling the story.
About the Author
Lueza Thirkield Gelb was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, in the
first part of the twentieth century, two years after the stock
market crash, and grew up in the Adirondacks before and during
the Second World War. A graduate of Wells College, she has a
Ph.D. in history from Teachers College, Columbia University,
and has taught at Pace University and Marymount-Manhattan College.
She lives in New York City with her husband, Bruce Gelb.
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