Barbara Kamler launches Sophie
About
At fourteen Sophie Kamler crossed the Atlantic alone, from Poland to America. At sixteen she paid for her siblings and mother to follow. At eighteen, a penniless wife, then a mother of three, she defied New York mobsters. At fifty-six, a widow, she married again only to be widowed a second time. Matriarch to a sprawling but tightly-held family of descendants, hers is a story of ambition— of love given, withheld, slighted, sustained and disappointed.Join her granddaughter, Barbara Kamler, poet and local author, in launching SOPHIE. A biography in vignettes, photographs and poetic reflections that is testament to a remarkable woman.
Avenue Bookstore, Elsternwick
6pm for a 6.30pm start
Barbara Kamler is a poet, researcher and academic from New Jersey, living in Melbourne. Her collections include ‘Leaving New Jersey’ and ‘Love, Regardless’. Kamler’s latest work ‘Sophie’ is a biography in vignettes of her grandmother’s life lived valiantly.
Location
Avenue Bookstore Elsternwick
351 Glen Huntly Rd, Elsternwick Vic 3185
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Barbara Kamler launches Sophie
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