Autorka čerpá zo svojho bohatého utečeneckého pôvodu, ktorý hlboko formoval jej písanie. Jej diela skúmajú témy predsudkov, nerovnosti a identity prostredníctvom optiky osobných skúseností a akademického výskumu v oblasti urbanizmu a vzdelávania. Prostredníctvom svojej prózy a esejí autorka preniká do zložitosti kultúrneho stretu a hľadania ľudskosti v kontexte historických traum a snahy o nový život.
Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers, and Artists Write About Their Work on Women
This book brings together the stories of biographers, novelists, scholars, and artists as they have written about the journeys (some literal, some figurative) they have made to their subjects. Contributors include Elizabeth Wood, J.J. Wilson, Leah Glasser, Jane Lazarre, and Alice Walker.
"Born several weeks after her parents' arrival in the United States, Carol Ascher came of age in Topeka, Kansas, where her father, a Vienna-trained lay analyst, found work among the group of refugee clinicians recruited there for the Menninger Clinic. Growing up, Ascher's challenge was to reconcile the Midwestern views of her community; the irrepressible optimism of her mother and her mother's tendency to romanticize her Berlin childhood; and the more sardonic views of her father and his highly cultured emigre circle, for whom memory was both illness and cure."