Description: So begins Ruth F. Brin's unique memoir, one that reveals the childhood beginnings of her life as a feminist thinker, poet, and well-respected writer of the Jewish faith. Brin draws close and loving portraits of her parents, her older brothers and outlines the story of her paternal grandparents who came to America from Austria-Hungary in the late 1880s and settled in Saint Paul. Early on, Brin relates her growing sense of how her religious faith will be integrated into her life and the ways in which she and her family must confront and survive instances of anti-Semitism in her surroundings. During the deepening Depression years of the 1930s, Brin describes her parents' struggles finding work and her own memories of the truck drivers' strike of that era. The author's original poems and stories are interwoven throughout the memoir so as to make Bittersweet Berries a compelling narrative of one woman's beginnings and growth as an accomplished writer and religious thinker.

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