1913. The Year Before The Storm Wien and race—in a way that

and race—in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all

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Some two hundred sixty species of owls exist today

From her grandfather’s return from World War I to Freud’s obsession with flowers to case histories with her own patients to progressive gardening programs in such places as Rikers Island prison in New York City

In a world not quite like this one

1913. The Year Before The Storm Wien and race—in a way thatA witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched documentary traces and biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate cultural portrait of a world that is about to change forever. The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. Kafka falls in love; Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet; a young seamstress called Coco Chanel opens her first boutique; Charlie