Bending toward the sun

Rita Lurie was five years old when she was forced to hide from the Nazis in a cramped, dark attic with fourteen members of her family. She watched her younger brother and her mother die before her eyes, but she survived. Decades later Rita's daughter, Leslie, began probing the traumatic events of her mother's childhood to discover how Rita's pain has affected not only Leslie's life and outlook but that of her own daughter, Mikaela, as well.