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Miranda‘s grandparents are survivors from France. Anna,a doctor, & Armand,an interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials& later the UN,separate after the war, divorce & don‘t speak to &only with hate about one another for fifty years.Miranda goes on a journey to find out why/what happened to them. As much as I wanted to get to the end, this is another book I‘m bailing on. 😢

#BookReport

Finished up A-Fifty Year Silence-memoir of the author‘s quest to understand & ask of her maternal grandparents, separated by their 50 years of silence and the Atlantic Ocean, why?She felt compelled & obsessed by her quest as carried their past within as the only grandchild. Beautifully written. Memorizing, sensory sense of place.Set in Italy & the US. Also finished the marvelous P & P, & the horrid Untamed.
The others In process.

#nowords #memory #genocide #landminesofmemory
“The world was sown with land mines of memory“
—Miranda
Reading in the car while waiting for my son to return with groceries.

Miranda‘s grandmother about the holocaust:
“‘Some words you can‘t even say.‘”

#memoir #legacy #holocaustsurvivors #memory
#nextgenerationsburden
Beautifully written.

#sundaymorning #coffeeandbooks #memoir
Coffee outdoors before grocery shopping with my son.

#magicalmarch Here is March spelled out in titles. Somehow I don't have a book that starts with R so I had to cheat and use the author, Richard Brandon, for that.

I picked this up at HPB my last visit. I'm about 45 pages in and very intrigued.

So much in this book.

The importance of the written word , especially letters. Wonder if we will get the same from emails. I suspect not. I still have letters from my parents and I love that I can see and feel their words even after all this time. @MrsMalaprop " when I open her letters, she is almost there again ."

An unexpected find. This book was a delight in so many ways. Firstly the book itself, lovely hard cover, ( most of my books here are paper backs) a dust cover! And printed on thick paper with an uneven cut.
I loved the flow of the words. The story was very interesting to me. The tears came a few times.
I learnt things, I cried, I laughed and I felt deeply for them all. So glad I read it. @MrsMalaprop

Kathy found this in an op shop today. The blurb has really got me wanting to read it. Sooooo it's about to be read by me now! I have so many books on my TBR shelf but I'm forever being distracted! This book sounds amazing so we shall see if it lives up to my expectations. @MrsMalaprop

The author moved to France and spent years trying to learn what happened between her grandparents to cause the terrible bitterness between them. An absorbing story of a grandchild unearthing her family's history during and after WWII, reads like a great novel.