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Florence Reiss Kraut

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Florence Reiss Kraut was raised and educated in New York City. With a BA in English and a Masters in Social Work she worked for over thirty years as a clinician, a family therapist and eventually CEO of a family service agency before retiring to write and travel. Her own close family of 26 aunts and uncles and 27 first cousins and listening to stories around the kitchen table, coffee klatches and family parties inspired her to write her fictional, multi-generational family drama, How to Make a Life.

She has published stories for children and teens, romance stories for national magazines, literary stories, and personal essays for the Westchester section of the New York Times. Her fiction has appeared in publications such as The Evening Street ...more

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What gives a man the courage to reinvent himself over and over again, each time in a new language, a new country, a new occupation? How can a person find the fortitude to step into different cultures, to ask haltingly for work, to eat strange food and make new friends, to learn to read like a kindergarten child, again and again and again? And then to adopt that country’s values as his own?

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