THE PLANO TEACHER Book Excerpt

he piano teacher, Erika Kohut, bursts like awhirlwind into the apartment she shares withher mother. Mama likes calling Erika her littlewhirlwind, for the child can be an absolute speeddemon. She is trying to escape her mother. Erikais in her late thirties. Her mother is old enough to be hergrandmother. The baby was born after long and difficult years