First published 2018
Sophie Abrams faces a painful decision when she inherits her great-grandfather Bernard Goldberg's Holocaust memories. Bernard survived experiences so unbelievable he once said he wouldn't trust them if someone else told the same story. Now his handwritten accounts sit in boxes while survivors disappear and their stories die with them. Sophie knows she never met the people Bernard describes, yet she feels responsible for their faces and names. She watches her generation grow up without understanding what happened, while tensions rise around her that echo dangerous patterns from the past. Sophie must decide whether to let these memories stay buried or bring them into the light. She chooses to edit and publish Bernard's memoir, transforming private pain into public memory. Her work becomes both an act of remembrance and a warning, bridging the gap between those who lived through history's darkest chapter and those who must prevent its return.
Genres: historical-fiction, world-war-ii, memoir, non-fiction
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Period: 20th-century
Hardcover · Todd & Honeywell
Content warnings: death, violence