All Ships Follow Me: A Family Memoir of War Across Three Continents

In the spirit of Susan Faludi's In the Darkroom and Edmund de Waal's Hare with the Amber Eyes comes a story of one family and two vastly different experiences during World War II, questioning our notions of victim and perpetrator and the lasting effects of war and trauma through the generations of one family.

In March 1942, Mieke Eerken's father was a ten-year-old boy living in the Dutch East Indies. When the Japanese invade the island he was interned, like a hundred thousand other Dutch civ...