SECONDS and INCHES

Part I: My Holocaust Chapter 3: Sylvia’s Choice 

Part I: My Holocaust Chapter 2: Shtetls and Fox Holes

Part I: My Holocaust Chapter 1: Trapped in a Burning Building

"I wear a sash like a beauty queen," writes Carly Israel, "except mine reads  Broken ." A child of alcoholics and grandchild of Holocaust survivors, Israel felt pressured to deny that anything was wrong at home. To the outside world she was an overachieving, straight-A student, but the reality included substance abuse starting at age nine, an eating disorder, exercising to the point of injury, and...

“Where we come from changes us, whether we are aware of it or not,” Carly Israel writes in the opening pages of her debut memoir,  Seconds and Inches . “The heat and the weight of what our ancestors endured is passed on.” What follows is a deeply introspective look at the ways in which trauma can move through a family, beginning with ancestors who survived the Holocaust, continuing with the author...

This is the full audiobook of my memoir. For free. Enjoy. "I wear a sash like a beauty queen," writes Carly Israel, "except mine reads  Broken ." A child of alcoholics and grandchild of Holocaust survivors, Israel felt pressured to deny that anything was wrong at home. To the outside world she was an overachieving, straight-A student, but the reality included substance abuse st...