Jacquie Buncel reading from Turning the Corner at Dusk

Jacquie Buncel reads poetry from Turning the Corner at Dusk, a poetic memoir of a daughter of Holocaust survivors. The book was published by Wolsak and Wynn in 2010.

The book includes poems about my experiences as a second generation adult child of Holocaust survivors and my journey with my father to his hometown in Presov Slovakia from which he had to flee the Nazis as a young child.. I write about his story as a boy, within the context of the history of Jews in Slovakia during the Holocaust. The book also explores the challenges of intergenerational trauma and my struggle to end the cycle, finding hope and healing, and creating new family as a lesbian parent.

Laura Lush writes about the book, "Turning the Corner at Dusk is a brave and haunting look at the painful trajectories of family history. Buncel's introspective journey begins with her father as she "reenacts" his personal history as a Slovakian Holocaust survivor and ultimately makes sense of her own position in the world as a mother, lover, sister, and daughter. It is this empathetic search for understanding and forgiveness that makes Buncel's debut book such an important leson in humanity. In these poems, 'turning the corner' means to overcome and eventually triumph over that which still haunts us: loss, death, and social injustice."

Category:

Education

Tags:

• second
• generation;
• adult
• children
• of
• Holocaust
• survivors;
• holocaust;
• trauma;
• healing;
• lesbian
• parenting

[rshockeygeek]

That's my Aunt!