by Lisa Gruenberg | Mar 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
My father’s paternal cousin Michal Aurbach, age 99, called me from her retirement community in Kvar Saba, in Israel. She wanted to let me know she was reading My City. I was surprised for a number of reasons. For one, the...
by Lisa Gruenberg | Feb 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
I wonder if you struggle with this. I’ve been carrying around a stack of pages from my novel for months now. It’s heavy. If I’m going to be totally honest, I’ve written two new pages over the past year. It’s traveled with me to Denver...
by Lisa Gruenberg | Feb 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’m rarely nervous. My biggest worry is that no one will actually show up. I love sharing this story, and it’s wonderful to meet so many people for whom the story resonates. I did a reading in Stockholm at the Karolinska Institute, where I’ve been...
by Lisa Gruenberg | Jan 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
I started writing Searching for Mia, then Finding Mia, and now My City of Dreams, in 2004 when my elderly father, a Viennese Holocaust survivor, began having flashbacks and nightmares about the past. I was suffering from severe depression and my dreams had...
