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Felicia Rosshandler

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Felicia Rosshandler is the product of three strikingly different cultures, the German, the French and the Spanish. She was born in Berlin, raised in Antwerp, and grew up in Havana. She landed in the United States at the age of seventeen where she quickly added Anglo optimism to the salad. She has raised three American sons in New York.

Always startling, her ability to navigate different cultures has opened bright and dark doors. Her novel, “Passing Through Havana” examines the multicultural experience as propelled by love and war. Subsequent novels have dealt with the cataclysm of modernity and dislocation. She has just completed “Landing in New York”, a series of memoir stories that chronicle her passage through the Twentieth Century.

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Passing Through Havana

Why "passing"? Because it is such a fine polysemous word that lends itself to many meanings. There is going unnoticed, there is passing through and there is pretending to be something one is not, all of which tragically apply to young Claudia in my autobiographical novel.

Passing can also be a fine trait for a writer. It makes you more vigilant and more observant. Perhaps you see more being on the Read more of this blog post »

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Shall we reproduce our pasts as faithfully as we can, or shall we distort them to make a better story. Shall we stick to the lives we had or invent those we need to explain ourselves to ourselves?

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