Ita Willen
The author was born in Poland in 1945, has a BA in philosophy from University of Texas in Austin and currently resides in Colorado. She was named for her paternal grandmother who died in a concentration camp, exact time and place unknown. In 1972 Random House published The Grubbag, a collection of weekly columns she wrote (under the name Ita Jones) for the Liberation News Service from 1968-70.
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The Gift, a Journey of Liberation “The Gift is one woman’s journey to find an answer from the horror of the past. It is a quest to bring to rest the guilt of the next generation, the children of the survivors and refugees”surrounded by an immense family of ghosts . . . . with eyes that shine our of single saved photographs.” . . . Seen through the cycle of the seasons, she, the first person narrator, tries to put the past not to rest but to life. She searches through time and place, religions and philosophies for the answers to unknown questions. Her personal path is smoothed by the study of Buddhism, not as a denial of her Jewish heritage but as a means of explanation and acceptance. . . . . . The Gift is in a material sense a very short memoir at 100 pages but in a true sense it is infinite. It is a work that deserves study and contemplation. Its multilayers or understanding, of compassion and of discussion will make it a fiction legacy." -Barb Radmore (www.frontstreetreviews.com/thegift.html)
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