![]() ![]() So many today around the world face the same uncertain decision – to stay or to go. The key event in many lives is making the decision to leave home forever and to strike out not knowing if it leads to disaster or to a future and a better place. ![]() In each family, a fundamental life event spawns ripples that sweep across time and generations that would fade forever without exploration and would otherwise shed all meaning. The book is a compelling and exhilarating experience exploring the threads of times now long gone and the memories that arose from them to generate the stories that lived on. My book, “The Story Keeper, Weaving the Threads of Time and Memory,” published in January 2021, is a memoir of families across generations of peace and of war, of homes that become lost and hopes that are kept, and a belief in a future that’s better than the present. Born in 1942 in Azerbaijan as my family was on the run from the German Army, I eventually was interned in displaced persons camps in Austria before being able to immigrate to the United States with my family in 1949. ![]()
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