Girl in Movement
Glad Day Books
P.O. Box 112
Thetford, VT 05074
$16.95
ISBN: 1-930180-05-5
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A young woman's story set in the United States where no battles take place. The author, a retired professor of German language and literature, came to the U.S. as a teenager fleeing Hitler. In a search of belonging and rational understanding of the world, she joined a small left-wing political party and spent the war years experimenting with Marxism, factory work, making love, getting married, running away, and learning about the limits and depths of friendship.
Reviews
Kollisch leads the reader into the picturesque world of American socialism during the early forties. It is almost a literary time capsule which is being opened before our eyes ... [Her] search for socialism was at the same time a search for the self ... Kollisch writes this story of her early adult life
with wit and wisdom, with irony and sincerity — an exemplary memoir of a movement which also moves the reader
—WORLD LITERATURE TODAY
What has touched me most in Girl in Movement was the... marvel
of her youthful, and continuing, commitment to social justice,
and her search for more complex visions of freedom. Eva
Kollisch could have been swept away by history; instead she
turned to grapple with it.
— THE WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS
Her descriptions of city scenes can make readers nostalgic for
something they may never have experienced. ... Historians, feminists,
and lovers of memoir will find this a treasure of information
and portraiture.
— BLOOMSBURY REVIEW
...Through the intense view of an innocent visionary, whose follies and illusions are appealingly human, a special time and frame of thinking are brought to vivid life.
—HELEN YGLESIAS
...As a reader of the same generation as Kollisch's young revolutionary, I'm dazzled by her courage, her embrace of the world as she moves toward becoming "an ordinary person."
—JANE COOPER
In this perfectly titled, skillfully written coming-of-age memoir, Eva Kollisch recaptures youth's ardor of politics and life during a fascinating moment of our cultural history.
—ALIX KATES SHULMAN
How a high school girl, a refugee... begins her travel on a narrow political road, feels finally too constrained but comes to the idealistic understandings and affection that will carry her truthfully forward.
Beatifully told.
—GRACE PALEY
Eva Kollisch
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