![]() ![]() ![]() Ganz” and a contented homelife with her three children as “Mrs. Now middle-aged, Veronica has mellowed out, established a successful dental practice in Nebraska as “Dr. The Plot: More than thirty years after the events of Veronica Ganz,the Ganz/Petronski/Ramirez family is back in the Bronx, following a series of events including the death of Veronica, Mary Rose and Stanley’s beloved stepfather their battle axe of a mother suffering a broken hip and Veronica’s artist husband having finally gotten his big break: a show at the Museum of Modern Art and a position teaching at the Art Students League. While in the past I have described her books as “weird and violent,” recounting an unsentimental past which takes a much more casual attitude towards physical violence and parental neglect, in this one Sachs deals with what turns out to be generational trauma and subjective truths in a way that is extremely sophisticated for its target audience. Was Aunt Mary Rose really a hero? Or has Mary Rose been living up to a lie?īackground: Marilyn Sachs is best known for a number of interconnected middle-reader books set in a pre-Robert Moses South Bronx in the early 1940s. ![]()
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