The Fortune Teller's Kiss

by Brenda Serotte

Book Overview

There was always the incantation: "Whoever wishes you harm, may harm come to them " And just in case that didn't work, there were garlic and cloves to repel the Evil Eye--or, better yet, the dried foreskin from a baby boy's circumcision, ground to a fine powder. But whatever precautions Brenda Serotte was subjected to, they were not enough. Shortly before her eighth birthday, in the fall of 1954, she came down with polio--painfully singled out in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080324326X
• ISBN13: 9780803243262
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"