CHAPTER TEN
Building bridges is an arduous task. It does not come naturally except to beavers. Perhaps every family should spend time in the diplomatic corps. A month later, Harriet took the train from Greenwich Village and got off at the Brooklyn Museum station to spend the afternoon with Elsbeta in the Botanical Gardens. Though the weather was glorious and the cherry trees were on display, everything went wrong. Nature could not rescue them. After ten minutes both women knew this was a bad idea. Elsbeta wanted her way of life to find value for her daughters-in law. Ironically, she felt more alienated from America because of them than when she had first arrived. She was on the board of art museums and dance groups and was president of her local Hadassah chapter. Once a week she played ca
