To Linger With You: A Memoir of Sunshine and Longing

Donna Nebenzahl grew up in the 1950s, part of a close-knit Portuguese family in the South American colony of British Guiana. Nurtured by loving grandparents, she spent her childhood never asking why her mother lived a continent away or the reason for her father's early death. Nor did she know why, having been brought up Catholic, she had a Jewish last name. As the colony gained independence and she moved to Canada, Nebenzahl began to explore the difficult issues that her family history rais...