Alva’s Boy – Alan Collins parchment But they are threaded together

But they are threaded together by one unmistakable truth: Their lives

working hard to make a new life

and understand his family

Daniel and Joanne and all my grandchildren Eli

Alva’s Boy – Alan Collins parchment But they are threaded togetherAn unsentimental biography. This book is a frank, confronting yet surprisingly funny memoir based on the life experiences and recollections of a Jewish childhood over a time span from 1928 to the mid forties. In some telling, names of people, places and dates have been changed. Mercifully, those named who are or were of a repellent nature have long since gone to God. The stories present incidents from the life of one person, the first person narrator.