Invitation to an Author’s Reading

"The Hotelkeeper’s Daughter"

The book is set in Brooklyn, New York, in 1938.

We come to know life through the eyes of Gilda (our author), from the ages of 7 to 19 years.

We ‘meet’ Gilda’s family members and the joys, trials and tribulations that beset her and her Jewish East European immigrant family.

From warm, family gatherings to a lonelier existence as her father rents a hotel that tears her away from her extended family and community.

Through Gilda eyes, we experience the Great Depression, World War II and a strained relationship with her mother.