Two Lives
26 January 2027 · United States
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Schaitkin joins a present-day literary encounter to wartime displacement. The question of who owns a remembered story gives the historical material a personal point of entry.
About the book
Evelyn Lieberman has built a life far from her wartime childhood. A novel recommended in her Florida retirement community contains details that only one other person could know. Seeking its author takes her back to the choices made when two children escaped Europe for the English countryside.
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