Hilda and Pearl
To Frances, an only child living in McCarthy-era Brooklyn, her mother, Hilda, and her aunt Pearl seem as if they have always been friends. Frances does not question the love between the two women until her father''s job as a teacher is threatened by anti-Communism, just as Frances begins to learn about her family''s past. Why does Hilda refer to her "first pregnancy," as if Frances wasn''t her onl...
To Frances, an only child living in McCarthy-era Brooklyn, her mother, Hilda, and her aunt Pearl seem as if they have always been friends. Frances does not question the love between the two women until her father''s job as a teacher is threatened by anti-Communism, just as Frances begins to learn about her family''s past. Why does Hilda refer to her "first pregnancy," as if Frances wasn''t her onl...
