The Visit to My Father

Morning after evening, he counts out his pills: two small burgundy capsules to control his cholesterol level, a blue tablet alternating with a yellow lozenge (hormones and chemicals to combat the metastasis), a half-green, half-red capsule to undo his anemia, minuscule white tabs for depression, and...

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Published inBridges (Seattle, Wash.) Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 64 - 65
Main Author Hellerstein, Kathryn
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ann Arbor Indiana University Press 01.04.2009
Bridges Association
Subjects
Grief and Loss
Mental depression
Yiddish language
France
New York
United States > US
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Summary:Morning after evening, he counts out his pills: two small burgundy capsules to control his cholesterol level, a blue tablet alternating with a yellow lozenge (hormones and chemicals to combat the metastasis), a half-green, half-red capsule to undo his anemia, minuscule white tabs for depression, and a disk the size of a quarter to stop the pain when he's saturated with radiation. The horsemen gallop in the roiling clouds, between the lightning bolts-War, Pestilence, Hunger, and Death-in this "saga of a family divided by Good and Evil in Occupied France."
ISSN:1046-8358
1558-9552
DOI:10.2979/bri.2009.14.1.64