Gabriela Gerhart remembers that day, back in 1989, when her teacher walked into her classroom in Czechoslovakia and announced that communism was over. Further, she told the group that everything she’d been teaching them was a lie. Gerhart was stunned. “It was confusing,” she tells CultureMap. “You think to yourself, ‘was I fooled? Was I indoctrinated? ‘You have to understand, I had no idea there was another world out there.” Gerhart, founder of The Motherhood Center on West Alabama Street unpacks those feelings and others in her new autobiography, After The Fall, a story of growing up in Central Europe under communism and following her own wanderlust to the States, where she fell in love, got married, and built a successful business. [button color="accent-color" hover_text_color_override="#fff" url="https://houston.culturemap.com/news/city-life/05-18-21-gabriela-gerhart-after-the-fall-the-motherhood-center-book-signing-central-machine-works/" text="Read Full Article" color_override=""]