Grace did not know. How long would it take to figure it out? How did the child of Holocaust survivors become a survivor herself? It was a mystery that took a lifetime to unravel. Until then, through the many difficulties she experienced, the lodestar that helped her was It could have been worse. The hand she was dealt was having been born in New York to a damaged family of Jews who came out of late 1930s Germany. It took her until she was in her eighties to understand her life, the ways she sabotaged herself, and why. PTSD and transgenerational trauma, the latter only being studied now are the keys. Now she knows.
Only in part is the value of 'Enough of All That' about PTSD. I think it is valuable also because it contains observations and reflections on people and life of a hugely sensitive, honest, original and thoughtful person. - Linda Goldenberg, author of the award-winning biography In Kindling Flame, the story of Hannah Senesh, the young poet who worked against the Nazis and was executed by a firing squad.
The wonder is that you are not angry with what was done to you by the family that raised you. - Diane M. Greene, Ph.D. child psychologist who is familiar with the writing of the book.