Guida Joseph

Guida Joseph

The Connecting Thread

Artist Guida Joseph has created an unusual documentary memoir on both her family’s origins and current experience by adopting a two-pronged approach via each of her parents. In the first part of the book, she relays her Jewish father’s roots and war trauma, incorporating sections of his own camp memoir and historical documentation. The second part describes the complexities of caring for her alcoholic, senile mother.