The Length of a String by Elissa Brent Weissman
About this episode
The episode discusses the themes of adoption and family history as explored in the book 'The Length of a String' by Elissa Brent Weissman.
What's it like to be adopted? Does your adopted family's history become your history or do you feel the need to find your biological story? Our book this week is "The Length of a String" by Elissa Brent Weissman. It's a Holocaust story about a Jewish family separated by the war. Readers from the Girlfriends Book Club of Baltimore at Hazelwood Elementary Middle School discuss the book and pose lots of questions to our writer. Actor and producer Bari Hochwald is celebrity reader. Kitty Felde is host.
People in this episode
Host: Kitty Felde
Guest: Bari Hochwald
Topics covered
- adoption
- Holocaust
- Jewish history
- family history
Keywords
- adopted family
- biological story
- war separation
Mentioned in this episode
Products: The Length of a String
Books & works: The Length of a String
Places: Baltimore
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