BRENDA SEROTTE

THE FORTUNE TELLER'S KISS

The memoir is about growing up in the Bronx in the 1950s, as an adored child performer in a Sephardic family of belly dancers and fortune tellers. It details Serotte’s bout with paralytic polio during one of America’s worst epidemics, her subsequent miraculous recovery, and the impact that contagious illness had on her Turkish-Jewish clan.


 

Nona Behora, the fortune teller, ca. 1953

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Memoir & Poetry

Memoir: The Fortune Teller's Kiss
A tale of growing up in the Bronx as a child belly dancer who catches polio, as predicted by her fortune-telling grandma.
Poetry
The Blue Farm: POEMS
Poems about the value of family, poetry, and the mystery of Peru.


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