Hot off the presses. Deborah Kalb is a well known book blogger who interviews new book authors about their books. This link will take you to Deborah’s interview with our author, Eva Umlauf, The Number on Your Forearm is lue Like Your Eyes.
Naomi wrote an Afterword for the book that was recently reprinted on the Jewish Book Council’s website. Naomi is mixed race–and her thoughts in the afterword show a kinship with her grandmother’s plight as both she and her grandmother are/were considered, “The Other” in their respective majority populations. Erik, Eva’s son, married Natalie Williams, who is African American in 1997 and they have two beautiful and bright daughters–Nadja and Naomi. Naomi is a student at Brown U and helped to found the first Black Literary Journal at Brown U. Naomi’s mother, Natalie, is a lawyer who clerked for Justice Sotomayor and Sotomayor officiated at the wedding of Erik and Natalie. Natalie became a legal adviser to President Clinton and she and her husband Erik (who is Eva’s first born son and is the CFO of J.P. Morgan Bank in New York) were major donors and supporters of Barack Obama.
Eva presented her book in a discussion with well known writer, Daniel Mendelsohn and with translator Shelley Frisch at the 92nd Street Y in New York City to a packed audience of 100+. The discussion was riveting. The 92nd St Y had ordered 30 books for sale and every book was sold and there were many more people who still wanted a copy.
