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Starred Review Kirkus:"A gripping historical saga that skillfully addresses the trauma of the Holocaust."

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POLITICS & THE PRESS: The Challenges of Covering the Trump Administration

Shelly Sanders

Aug 16, 2018
4 min

POLITICS & THE PRESS: The Challenges of Covering the Trump Administration

My timing couldn’t have been better. I arrived on Martha’s Vineyard, with my husband and son, the day Islanders Write began. It’s a free...

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WASHINGTON POST

June 20, 2022

The title of this haunting novel refers not only to the victims of Latvia’s Holocaust but also to their descendants, who carry the trauma of their ancestors. Sanders tells this story through three women: Miriam Talan, who survived the Rumbula forest massacre that took the lives of about 25,000 Jews; her daughter Ilana, whom she relinquished to save her from the internment camps; and Sarah, Miriam’s American granddaughter, who in the 1970s risks her life and travels to Soviet-controlled Latvia to ferret out the truth about her family’s wartime past. (Harper, May 3)

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