Carol Ascher writes fiction, memoirs, personal essays, scholarly articles and book reviews. Her fiction and nonfiction often explore the themes of prejudice and inequality. Trained as a cultural anthropologist, she has spent much of her professional life writing about urban public schools. read more

  • June 11, 2009: 8AMSpecial Father's Day Interview
    WAMC radio will host a special father's day interview about Afterimages with Susan Barnett, host of 51% (Show #1039).  The program airs on Thurs June, 11 at 8 a.m. and the following Wednesday, June 15, at 3 p.m.  It goes national on Friday the 12th and airs different times all over the country.  But it'll be available online on the 11th.
  • July 24, 2009: 7:30PMReading
    A benefit reading of Afterimages at Common Ground, in Danbury, Connecticut

Afterimages

In Afterimages, Ascher movingly evokes her childhood in Topeka, Kansas, amidst a community of refugee psychoanalysts who found work at the Menninger Sanitarium, as well as her return to Vienna as an adult to uncover who her father had been before his forced emigration.

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Holmes & Meier
2008
ISBN 978-0-8419-1449-0 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-8419-1451-3 (pbk)