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Jenna blum artfully brings to the page a husband devastated by a grief he cannot name, a frustrated wife struggling to compete with a ghost she cannot banish, and a daughter sensitive to the pain of both her own family and another lost before she was born. I felt a little bad putting this book down halfway through it is, after all, a book about the holocaust. Jenna blum s debut novel became a grassroots sensation and was a new york times bestseller for more than a year. Spanning three cinematic decades, the lost family is a charming, funny, and elegantly. Her daughter, trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an american soldier and went to live with him in minnesota. Original stories of postwar love and reunion, and more on. Life is so often unfair and painful and love is hard to find and you have to take it whenever and wherever you can get it, no matter how brief it is or how it ends. Digital rights management drm the publisher has supplied this book in encrypted form, which means that you need to install free software in order to unlock and read it.
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