Michael Arditti

In search of kindred spirits: An Absence of Cousins, by Lore Segal, reviewed

When Ilka Weisz, a young refugee from Vienna, accepts a teaching post in smalltown Connecticut, she struggles to make friends in the close-knit academic community

Lore Segal. [Ellen Dubin Photography]

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