Toronto Star article about Rifke

Rosalie Wise Sharp's riveting memoir, Rifke, opens in 1998 with a fabulous flight around the world in the private jet recently acquired by her husband, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts CEO Isadore Sharp.

They're grinning, but this is not a book about the rich and famous enjoying their wealth and fame. It just strikes the author as hilarious that this could really be happening to "two schleppers like us ... both raised in households where one bathroom served 12, and our parents came from a Polish shtetl with no indoor plumbing."