Bending Toward the Sun A Mother and Daughter Memoir - Leslie Gilbert-Lurie young adult Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss

She spent her twenties facilitating creative writing workshops for primary and high school students and her early thirties contributing humorous opinion pieces for online and print magazines

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Bending Toward the Sun A Mother and Daughter Memoir - Leslie Gilbert-Lurie young adult Bari WeissA miraculous lesson in courage and recovery, "Bending Toward the Sun" tells the story of a unique family bond forged in the wake of brutal terror. Weaving together the voices of three generations of women, Leslie Gilbert Lurie and her mother, Rita Lurie, provide powerful and inspiring evidence of the resilience of the human spirit, relevant to every culture in every corner of the world. By turns unimaginably devastating and incredibly uplifting, this