Paula Fass's moving memoir is written with quiet dignity and the most impressive moral lucidity. Her account of a family devastated by genocide is testimony both to human resilience and to the painful price of emotional fragility paid in the midst of the resilience.
- Robert Alter (University of California, Berkeley) In this moving and eloquent book, Paula Fass explores the legacies of love and loss that the children of Holocaust survivors inherit.
- James Sheehan (Stanford University) The children of [holocaust] survivors face the burden of the unspoken past; relatives discuss the past in whispers and fragments of conversation. Fass' remarkable memoir pieces together these fragments to tell a poignant, honest account of her parents' lives and families-their endurance, suffering, and loss. Highly recommended.
(Choice) Paula Fass combines her skills as an historian, writer, and researcher with her position as a child of survivors with memories imparted by her parents to create an unusual memoir of being part of the "second generation." Her exceptional skills as a writer make this book more than the usual random memoir of information. The result is a touching family story supported by historical fact.
(Jewish Book World)
