Adele Mendelson
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Adele Mendelson

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Adele Mendelson was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and moved to San Francisco in 1964 when she was nineteen years old. She found herself in the Haight Ashbury in the middle of the counterculture. Despite the chaos of the times, she managed to earn an M.A. degree and enjoy a twenty-year teaching career in the English Language Program at the University of California at Berkeley. She married, raised two children, and learned how to be a poet and a fiction writer. She now lives in a 1901 Victorian in Oakland, California. In the author’s words . . . This book, Sarah and Zari After the War, comes from a place deep in my Jewish DNA. My fictional self in this book (Sarah) is twelve years old when Zari Heller, a Holocaust survivor, comes to live in her family’s house in Cleveland, Ohio. It is1948, three years after the end of the Second World War. Sarah is fascinated by her new friend's mysteries and wants to know everything about her. As Zari describes her privileged life in pre-war Berlin and her experience during the war, Sarah opens to an understanding of the world. For her part, Sarah helps Zari survive her new life. The bones of this story are true to my life. The rest is how I imagined it to be. Living on Earth (New and Selected Poems) When I write a poem, I am searching for words to bridge the gap between your mind and mine. Our experiences are uniquely personal and also universal. Some of my poems are true, others are fiction, but they all tell the story of what's happened to me in my life – my reach for happiness, what I have loved, and what I have suffered. Poems are arrows that fly from heart to heart. They tell us that we are all companions in this world, which gives us another reason to love each other. Finding words to share our humanity – that is the business of poetry. Other works of poetry by the author: Celebration of Myself Gardens, a Book of Poetry Only in a Body What I’m writing now: “Becoming Anju: An American Woman in India” I fell in love with India when I traveled there in the 1980s. As a foreigner, free of all caste and other social barriers, I was fortunate to be welcomed everywhere. Decades later I still remembered the fascinating variety of people I met, the smells of jasmine and fresh-ground spices, and the beauty of sari-clad women walking along village roads. I remembered the sounds of the jungle, the temple bells, and the monsoon as it swept through the subcontinent. I wrote this novel to capture and hold all of those memories. "Becoming Anju" is the story of a beautiful young woman traveling alone in India, miserable after having run away from her fiancé. She is trying to find her way back to the New Delhi airport so she can go home to Boston. Fate and circumstance intervene, and she embarks on the journey of her life.
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