Elizabeth Claman's memoir, WHEN PIGS FLY is the perfect embodiment of the adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Born toward the end of World War II to a war-traumatized alcoholic father and a quixotic artistic mother, neither of them skilled at parenting, she learned resiliency to survive her turbulent childhood then used it repeatedly to thrive in adulthood, proving her father dead wrong about her. Of this book, Rita Gardner, author of...