Fire In My Ears

Fire in My Ears is the story of Mary, a too beautiful young woman who has been taught that her appearance is her only asset. She fails to develop any additional aptitudes or talents, tragically concluding that her beauty is all she needs. She makes one monumental decision just as she embarks on adulthood, and this sparks her life journey that is replete with anger, resentment and despair. The misery she has spawned spreads directly to her children and grandchildren, infecting her descendants like a family plague. Determined to save at least one member of her family from this curse, she begins telling Sarah, her nine-year-old granddaughter, the story of her life. Sarah tries to understand the messages in her grandmother’s nightly tales as she is navigating her own developing life.

Learn how Mary makes her way from a shtetl in Belarus to the East End of London and on to New York all the time laboring under the cloud of her ill-fated decision. Meet her seven children, their husbands and wives and children, and discover how the seeds of their unhappiness were planted long before their births. And finally, admire the heroic effort that Mary makes to atone and save Sarah.