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son detre had been indignation,
experiences doubt.
"Should she have been kinder?
And to whom?"
But what had changed was the
sophistication of the rescue equipment
and in turn, the end of the story. The
nine miners in Pennsylvania happily
went home with their families. In
Cherry, more than half the men who
went to work at the mine the morning
of Nov. 13, 1909, kissed their wives
good-bye and never returned.
As for Tintori Katz's grandfather, a twist
of fate saved him that cold November
day. As her mother tells it, he had woken
up with a hangover, something fairly for-
eign for a man who rarely drank.
Instead of going to work at the
mine, he'd decided to slip back under
the covers — a decision that can only
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Gerber knows only too well the
degradation and suffering of the eld-
erly, kept alive beyond their time in
"a holding pen for dying animals."
She had watched helplessly as her
own mother begged for death.
"But Anna is not my mother at
all," says the piize-winning author.
"She didn't have that irony, that
speed of retort. [Anna] is a combina-
tion of what I knew about her life,
what I imagined a certain voice in
her head would sound like — which
is a combination of me and her —
and my invention."
A fiction-writing instructor at
California Institute of Technology,
Gerber is a careful observer of those
thousands of details that forge fami-
ly dynamics, and she skillfully trans-
forms life's ordinary and gut-wrench-
ing moments into compelling prose.
We see Anna as a young mother in
The Kingdom of Brooklyn, even more
strident from a child's point of view.
Nearly 80 at the start of Anna in
Chains, she shuffles, still independ-
ent, through her neighborhood, then
sinks into ever descending circles of
hell: retirement home, nursing
home, utter dependence.
Even Gerber's nonfiction journal,
Old Mother, Little Cat, brilliantly
balances her nursing home visits to
her real-life mother with her nurtur-
ing of a lost kitten.
In the end Gerber tells us: "Anna
accepted her fate." But has Gerber
accepted it?
"I haven't made peace with the
way we are forced to suffer at the
end of our lives," she says. "I'm hop-
ing the world will rearrange itself
from those fanatics who say that life
at any cost is worth preserving."
Is the Anna cycle really ended?
"Do any Jews even believe in an
afterlife?" muses Gerber. "I didn't
hear it from my relatives. They had
no confidence that there was any
kind of heavenly reward ahead."
With Anna gone, Gerber wastes
no time with idle retrospection.
Look in November for Botticelli Blue
Skies, the saga of her sojourn in Italy,
and a book of essays, Gut Feelings: A
Writer's Truths and Minute
Inventions, due in spring 2003.
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The town of Somerset, Pa., celebrated the
2002 rescue of all nine miners trapped in
the Quecreek mine.
remind us of how fragile and how
unpredictable life can be.
The release date of Tintori Katz's
book, Trapped: the 1909 Cherry Mine
Disaster, originally set for September,
has been rescheduled for this month.
The publisher, Atria Books, hopes to
capitalize on the interest of an already
involved audience, she said.
And if Hollywood is any measure of
how successful a book will be, there's
no question Tintori Katz's grandfather
would be very proud.
The manuscript of Trapped is cur-
rently sitting on the desks of directors
Robert Redford, Tom Hanks, Kathryn
Bigelow and Oliver Stone. Not a bad
accomplishment for the granddaughter
of a man who worked in the mines.
Karen Tintori Katz's Trapped: the
1909 Cheri), Mine Disaster will
be a featured selection at this-
year's Jewish Book Fair, which
runs Nov. 6-17 at the West
Bloomfield and Oak Park JCCs.