![]() ![]() Her mother has a younger sister, Julie’s Aunt Clara, who left to go to New York many years ago and no one ever talks about. At school, Julie gets top marks, puts up with irritating boys, and afterwards her irritating piano lessons, and generally the issues of your average 13-year-old girl. Her father is exceedingly busy, and her mother spends her time either fretting nervously or shopping and socializing with people, so Julie spends a lot of time with Milli instead. Her family is very, very well-off, and live in a large and fancy apartment in the centre of Vienna, complete with a dining room that seats twenty, priceless paintings, and so on. She likes to play cards with the family’s maid, Milli, and annoy her brother Max, and spend time with her best friend Sophy, and avoid practicing the piano, and so on. Julie Weiss is a wealthy girl growing up in Austria with her family, where her father is a respected physician, her mother a renowned beauty, and her older brother a snotty intellectual college student. ![]() It’s actually significantly more depressing than a book about slavery, and how awful is that? It’s far, far more depressing than the Titanic book where hundreds of people dying is the main plot! This is flat-out one of the most depressing DA books out there. One Eye Laughing, The Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria, to New York, 1938, Barry Denenberg, 1938. ![]()
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