A ground-breaking book that is part autobiography, part interviews, a book that helped establish the personal Holocaust memoir in the American Jewish literature of the last two decades. Epstein does not sentimentalize, soften, or patronize her subjects. Some are proud Jews, others pass. Some break the most sensitive of taboos (incest), others conform. Some are productive members of their societies, others struggle. All live with the Holocaust experiences of their parents as either presence or absence. It is totally unromantic. Its primary concern is for the speakers and the narrative allows them and Epstein to tell their lives and their views without softening their experiences and perceptions. For that alone, it should be continued to be read and studied. "A passionate, brilliantly illuminating work," wrote the
Los Angeles Sunday Times.
Washington Post review by Robert Coles
New Yorker review
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