Hard Joy: Life and writing
Upswell Publishing, $29.99 pb, 371 pp
Memoir
Reclamation
An affecting memoir of loss and change
by Susan Sheridan •
When Susan Varga made the momentous, long-delayed decision to commit herself to writing, her first task was to write her mother’s story – that of a Holocaust survivor who migrated from Hungary to Australia with her second husband and two daughters in 1948, when Susan was five. That story, which is also one of a complex and difficult relationship between mother and daughter, became the award-winning Heddy and Me (1994).
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