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

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How Virtual Connections Improved My Focus

Shelly Sanders

Sep 29, 2020
5 min

How Virtual Connections Improved My Focus

As the idea of quarantine became a reality, I decided there was no choice but to embrace it. Make the most of my enforced time at home....

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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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