![]() ![]() Her words flow from page to page in the most poetic fashion with emphasis placed on short, striking bits of text highlighting especially difficult memories. Grende’s memoir is written in a unique and gripping style. The Butcher’s Daughter is Florence Grende’s own recollection of her life in New York City and her struggle to come to terms with her parents’ own battle with the memories of their lives in Germany during the Holocaust. Grende’s questions about her mother’s outbursts and her father’s deep, dark sadness lead her to answers she is afraid she already knows but is not willing to admit. ![]() Florence, their daughter, grows up watching her parents keep their demons at bay as she learns as much about her family’s haunting past as she learns about herself. The horrors of their past, however, never leave them and infiltrate every aspect of their lives in the United States. ![]() Florence Grende’s parents survived the Holocaust and managed to settle in New York City to provide a new life for their children. ![]()
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