Forgotten People
People Without Faces
Will be published approx. on 1. January 2010
Book
Hardback
277 pages
978-1-885003-81-2 (ISBN)
Description
Forgotten People is a personal, eye-opening, compassionate look at convalescent homes. The author shares his experience in placing his mother in a home and shares the humor, joy, and bitterness of the other residents in the same home during their last days, weeks, months, or years on earth. He encourages readers to spend as much time as possible with the elderly because they may have little time left. We can learn a lot from these interesting, talented, and passionate people.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
San Francisco
United States
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 55 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-885003-81-2 (9781885003812)
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Person
Alejandro Modena grew up during WWII in a Palestinian town where Jews and Arabs shared poverty and hunger. As conditions worsened, a lucky discovery gave Alex's family the means to flee the country and emigrate to Cuba. When revolution swept over Cuba, they were forced to flee again; to Jamaica and eventually to the U.S.
He has accomplished the American Dream. He now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, near his two children and six grandchildren, with his wife Barbara Pollack Modena.