The Reason for Wings: A Novel (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)
by By Kornblatt, Joyce Reiser
Category: Religion , Judaism , History

In The Reason for Wings Rachel Silver, a Holocaust survivor now living in Argentina, undertakes "the duties of witness," setting down for her missing granddaughter Marcella a history of the family's survival.Rachel's chronicle begins with her grandparents Dov and Reba and their young daughter Sonia, who will become Rachel's mother. This is a tale of departure and arrival - from Dov's disappearance in the Danube Delta and his family's subsequent flight from pogroms and war. Finding haven at last in Buenos Aires, Dov Landau's descendants encounter the Fascist nightmare yet again, swept up this time in Argentina's "Dirty War" of the 1970s. When her pregnant daughter and son-in-law vanish into the military torture camps, Rachel finds strength and courage in the family stories she herself creates. A legacy for her granddaughter - "We would have named you Marcella" - Rachel's narrative is a testimony to love as much as it is to the will to live.