Helen Fogarassy
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America has had a wild ride in the first two decades of the 21st-Century. The period began with Y2K hysteria, fears about the digital leap from 1999 to 2000. The change occurred with few disruptions and yet two years later a terrorist attack on America shook the world. America rebounded from that outside assault and yet the shock was greater 20 years later when the beacon of democracy was attacked by its own people. The culprits behind the attempted...
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An easy-going American and an intense Hungarian are a mature couple who get engaged just as the Iron Curtain falls in 1989. Army vet Arnie Smith considers it great news, but refugee immigrant Julia Kertesz is swept with a cascade of raw hurts. As the two work through their differing views about that period in history, current family crises push them into deeper conflict until a revived trauma signals the end. The novel is based on a memoir written...