SACHS, BLANCHE COHEN — From Cairo to Carbondale and Beyond

Blanche Sachs Cohen, 2006. Softcover. ISBN: 0795186576. 132 pages. Autobiography of the author, from the time she left her home country of Egypt to the US in the early 1950s as a young Jewish student at the University of Carbondale, Illinois. The essays in the book detail her life with her family in Cairo, the slowly degrading and intolerable living conditions in that country, and the many aspects of her life. Signed, inscribed by the author; name of recipient marked out. Includes a bookmark that advertises two other books the author wrote ; Signed by Author. VG .