The Comfort Bird and Cruel Paradise Other To this day I have

To this day I have a great respect for food

The black market was thriving and people parted with everything they had just to get some food

I had to go back to my place in line

but it was not to be

Across the Atlantic is a powerful and insightful glance into the lives of Dutch immigrants from the 1920s on

The Comfort Bird and Cruel Paradise Other To this day I haveThe Comfort Bird follows the experiences of three generations of two families of farm laborers from a small town in the Northern Netherlands. In a strange twist of fate after D Day World War II brings the families together again, on opposing sides of the conflict. Cruel Paradise deftly weaves together the firsthand stories of men and women who emigrated from the Netherlands throughout the twentieth century. Hylke Speerstra is one of the most acclaimed