Review: Great interwoven story!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 6, 2014
This is an excellent depiction of the lives of people since the events of WWII. We are immediately confronted with habits, policies, events and people who have big unknown and sometimes unknowable scars. We are allowed into people lives as they try to cope with unpredictable, incomprehensible, unprecedented daily events that traumatize and dehumanized so many. Germany and Hitler did not sponsor all the horror. Japan, and many Eastern and Western European countries compounded the tragedies. People had no where to turn, no where to run. Decades later, there is still much dysfunctional behaviors. How does one recoup from this type horror? This novel provides a window into the Holocaust survivors that few others have captured. The institutional abuse is also presented. If only we could learn from these events, then we could create a just world for many more people. There is so much unacknowledged pain; there is a tremendous need to re-calibrate the scales. This "fiction" seems to capture the strangeness of life.