In My Mother's House: A Novel

"Graceful . . . The global catastrophe of the Nazi era we know about. It is the individual, private pain it caused that is skillfully given voice here." —The Boston Globe

In My Mother's House is a beautiful, haunting, and elegantly crafted novel about a daughter's obsession to understand her mother's staunch commitment to silence about their family's experiences during World War II Vienna—and how they were able to escape.

Told in the alternating voices of Elizabeth and her mother Jenny, the s...