Multigenerational story of life's twists and turns, featuring Sasha, an actress in pre-war Warsaw, her daughter Chloe, a child of the sixties, and her grandaughter, Phoebe, a true nineties woman.
When seven former bunkmates at Willow Lake Camp reunited for the camp's one hundredth anniversary, they discover that despite the different paths their lives have taken, they all face the same regrets.
Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau takes on a new identity after her husband, Jacob, is forced to disappear to escape Nazi forces, leaving Emma behind to face the atrocities of war and deny her growing attraction to another man.
Nineteen-year-old Miriam, imprisoned in Siberia after inadvertently involving herself with revolutionaries in 1911 Kiev, tells the story of her turbulent life in a Jewish village, writing journal entries to the daughter she gave up at birth.
Sophie Applebaum, the middle child in a suburban Jewish family, struggles to find her place in life and love over the course of twenty-five years that leads her from her adolescence in Pennsylvania, to college, the big city, and back home again.
Eighteen-year-old Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, fell in love with a wealthy college Afghan student in 1961. They married and went to Afghanistan where her American passport was taken away and she became the property of her husband's polygamous family. Despite the fact that she was trapped she managed to escape. This book is her memories of that time.
A story of the author's aunt, a Jewish dance instructor who was betrayed to the Nazis by the two men she loved, yet managed to survive World War II by teaching dance to the SS at Auschwitz.
