The Book

My Parents Went Through the Holocaust and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt – a memoir by Hanala Stadner – will have you laughing and crying, but mostly laughing.

People sitting near you at the beach will think you’ve had a nervous breakdown. You’ll be reading excerpts to your friends, sharing the parts you liked best . . . The Quaalude Years? The Brando Bit? The Hollywood Horrors? The Recovery “A” AA meetings?

One of the best lines: “My parents survived Hitler, I survived my parents. Ozzie and Harriet they weren’t. Going through the Holocaust made them cranky.” Or maybe, “Guilt, the Gift that Keeps on Giving.”