ABSTRACT
A frugal ficctionalist influenced by Borges and Italo Calvino, Alcina Lubitch Domecq is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and a Guatemalan mother. She is the author of two sparse books: El espejo en el espejo: o, La noble sonrisa del perm {The Mirror's Mirror: or, The Noble Smile of the Dog, 1983) and Intoxicada {Intoxicated, 1984). Her stories have been translated into several European languages. She lives in Jerusalem. The autobiographical essay that follows, originally published in The Literary Review (Fall 1999), serves Lubitch Domecq to reflect on her mestizo self. She explores issues of guilt and silence in the so-called "Second Generation," the children of those who lived beyond the Nazi atrocities of 1939 to 1945.
