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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803243537
• ISBN13: 9780803243538
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"