All About Eva: A Holocaust-Related Memoir, with a Hollywood Twist

Rudy Brook had just passed the German bar exam and married his childhood sweetheart. Hitler’s coming to power put an end to Rudy’s law career, and his wife, Eva, dashed his Zionist dream, insisting they emigrate to America instead of Palestine. Their arrival in 1938 on Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass) spared them that calamity and the even graver one to follow. But that’s only half the story. Eva’s connections to the upscale refugee colony in Los Angeles led Rudy to become a garden...