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in progress

works

I am actively working on several writing projects, some of which are outlined below. Interested readers are encouraged to submit feedback on concepts and subscribe for updates to be alerted of future publications.​
 

This memoir, which - chapter by chapter - I am currently posting on the website's blog section, deals with a universal human need: to search for and understand our parents and ultimately ourselves.

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I lost my parents when I was young, Mom died when I was 11 and Dad when I was 18. I was left alone in Argentina with no immediate family. I emigrated to the US and studied: first, science; then, law. Given my training in both areas, and the technological revolutions in biotechnology and computer science that were occurring in the early 1980s, I became the co-founder of a law firm. My firm is today renown worldwide in the field of intellectual property in multiple areas of high technology.

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Yet, in parallel to my professional successes, I never let go of a lifelong need to get to know my late parents. Not just as a child but as an adult. This highly personal memoir describes my lifelong efforts to track down their histories and those of their - my - families. It is the story of my quest to get to know them after their deaths. To accomplish this, I traveled to the four corners of the world: Italy, Greece, Turkey, Austria, and Latin America. In a dramatic instance, I discovered a large European family that my late father had never mentioned. The memoir is therefore also a story of reconciliation between Dad and me decades after his death.

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The memoir weaves my stories in the context of multiple generations touched by different cultures, languages, religions, and travels, both in space and time. It also provides the reader with insight into the power of objects and places to elicit Proustian memories. Many chapters are centered around an object or a city with which Mom or Dad were emotionally associated; and I use those to bring my parents back from the distant past.

Recollection
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