Dana Sussman
Reflecting on my family’s moment of joy
In the third part of this comic strip series about my grandmother, my mom and I wrestle with the consequences of Bubbe’s parenting on our relationship.
Beauty is pain, Rebecca. It’s time you learned that.
“I think about how she’d vocally disagree with most of my decisions and the pleasure she’d get from explaining why I’m wrong. “
Everyone who made up what would have been my Jewish family was lost in the War. No one taught my Buba to cook.