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The Leopard Hat : A Daughter's Story by Valerie Steiker (2002, Hardcover)

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This indelible story of a mother and daughter opens with a magical childhood on the Upper East Side of New York. At its heart is Valerie Steiker's mother, Gisèle, a Belgian Jew who, as a child, was hidden from the Nazis during World War II. As an adult, Gisèle developed a large appetite for joy, beauty, and spontaneity, tempered only by her old-world superstitions and protectiveness. The apartment on Madison Avenue where she and her husband raised two daughters overflowed with books, musical instruments, velvet-lined boxes, Gisèle's flamboyant wardrobe, and, above all, love and warmth. When Gisèle died during her daughter's junior year at Harvard, Steiker's challenge was to preserve the enveloping glow of her mother's presence even as she stepped outside of it. With grace and humor, she explores her girlhood and adolescence and the crucial growing pains of her twenties. She falls in love; she moves to Paris for a year on her own; she returns home to find her mother still absent. Layering episodes in her own life with those of her mother's, she often sees Gisèle illuminated in her own experiences. The Leopard Hatis an intimate account of loss and reconciliation, and of the unshakable bond between a mother and daughter; it is, finally, the celebration of a young woman's vivacious emergence into adulthood. From the Hardcover edition.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375421017
ISBN-13
9780375421013
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1964475

Product Key Features

Book Title
Leopard Hat : a Daughter's Story
Author
Valerie Steiker
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Women, General, Jewish
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Fiction
Number of Pages
336 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
17.1 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Hq755.85.S739 2002
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Valerie Steiker's "The Leopard Hat" is something rare: a completely charming and winsome book about a completely serious subject -- a mother's love and her loss, and the hold that both have on her daughter's memory. Written with a lyrical brightness and exuberant delight in the details of New York hats and gloves, private schools and taxis, "The Leopard Hat" also has a genuine pathos that sends the reader back again and again to see and feel with the author. Can there be any loving daughter who won't see something of her mother in this memoir, or many readers who won't be taken by its special mixture of the high-hearted and the heart-breaking? --Adam Gopnik, author ofParis to the Moon "'The Leopard Hat' is an ode to courage, elegance and beauty. Valerie Steiker has written a compelling, sensitive book that reads fluidly and touches the heart." ---Diane von Furstenberg From the Hardcover edition.
Copyright Date
2002
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2001-133047
Dewey Decimal
306.874/3/092747
Dewey Edition
21

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