Paths and Portraits -- Short Stories
Judith Cabaud
- Paths
- and
- Portraits
- is
- a
- short
- story
- collection
- that
- focuses
- the
- reader's
- attention
- from
- the
- beginning
- on
- two
- immigrant
- families
- of
- the
- early
- twentieth
- century.
- Their
- arrival
- from
- central
- Europe
- to
- the
- USA
- in
- times
- of
- war,
- persecution
- and
- antisemitism,
- sets
- the
- stage
- for
- their
- descendants,
- the
- many
- characters,
- real
- or
- imaginary,
- who
- seem
- like
- uprooted
- travelers
- on
- the
- road
- of
- their
- individual
- destiny.
- Their
- narrations
- are
- about
- love,
- death,
- denial
- and
- forgiveness.
- The
- volume
- contains
- seventeen
- stories,
- 369 pages.
