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264 pages, Paperback
First published August 4, 2020
1947. Aron and Judy Lubinski are moving to the US along with their three year old twin girls Johanna and Bronka after the WWII to escape the continuing persecution of the Jews in Poland. There, Aron is welcomed with open arms in the home of his cousin Izzy and his wife Fay. Izzy also finds a job for Aron, thereby making his transition to his new life a little smoother. Aron is a deeply religious man and strictly follows all traditional Jewish customs. For their own reasons, Aron and Judy don’t reveal anything about the Holocaust and its impact on their family to their girls. But as the years pass, their curiosity and their peers make them realise that there is a lot left unsaid by the parents.
Along with this main story arc, there are multiple side arcs related to Fay’s daughter Becky from an earlier marriage, their neighbour Leonore and her affairs, and an ex-Nazi soldier working for a local delicatessen.