On "Hot Chocolate," by Ilana Sterlin, Modan publishers, 2002 "I have not yet come out of hiding." For seven years Naomi and Ilana Sterlin - the psychologist who treated her - met in a pink room, a surrealistic envelope for what was happening inside within its four walls. The building,…

How did you survive? At the age of 25, I found myself facing my own mother, daring to ask this question. Apparently, a simple one. Four words only. But a question unthinkable before. This was in the early 1980s. We were sitting in the kitchen, a place so familiar to…

And what happens to Gershona after the end of the book? When asked- and often I am- I try to imagine Gershona now. What would she be like if she were here today? She would have been 44 years old, a mother of three perhaps, maybe a career woman like…