The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting

The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting

In this beautiful book, Elizabeth Cohen gives us a true and moving portrait of the love and courage of a family.

Elizabeth, a member of the “sandwich generation”—people caught in the middle, simultaneo…

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