"We weren't religious per se. The most frequent mention of God in our house was my mother yelling 'Goddammit!'"

Part memoir, part social history, in Departure Stories: Betty Crocker Made Matzoh Balls (and other lies), Elisa Bernick uses her family's experiences to explore Minnesota's legacy of antisemitism and the struggle for women's rights during the 1960s and early 1970s. She tells both heartbreaking and hilarious stories about being the

"Prose's book is a stunning achievement. . . . Now Anne Frank stands before us. . . a figure who will live not only in history but also in the literature she aspired to create." — Minneapolis Star Tribune

In June, 1942, Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. For two years, she described life in hiding in vivid,