Looking Up: A Memoir of Sisters, Survivors and Skokie

Written by a child of two Holocaust Survivors, Looking Up: A Memoir of Sisters, Survivors and Skokie, tells a story of growing up with parents who have survived the unsurvivable, who land in Skokie, an idyllic northern suburb of Chicago, where they're suddenly free to live their lives, but find the past has arrived with them. In a book that's both funny and somber, and a story universal in its scope, Linda Pressman creates an unforgettable portrait of adolescent angst and traumatized parents amid the suburban world of the 60s and 70s, ultimately finding that her parents' stories are her own.

Linda Pressman is a freelance writer, editor, and author whose work has appeared in Brain Child Magazine, Motherwell Magazine, the literary journal Six Hens, on Kveller.com, and other venues. This book, her first memoir, won the grand prize in the Writer’s Digest 20th Annual Book Contest, and is permanently housed in the collections at Yad Vashem and the U.S. Holocaust Museum. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona where she is working on a second memoir.