Good Talk by Mira Jacob – 400 pages Book Blurb: “Who taught Michael Jackson to dance?” “Is that how people really walk on the moon?” “Is it bad to be brown?” “Are white people afraid of brown people?” Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob’s half-Jewish,...
Jumping Over Shadows by Annette Gendler Courtesy of author for an honest review Book Blurb: “History was repeating itself when Annette Gendler fell in love with a Jewish man in Germany in 1985. Her Great-Aunt Resi had been married to a Jew in Czechoslovakia before...
The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger– 304 pages Book Blurb: Edith Eger was sixteen years old when the Nazis came to her hometown in Hungary and took her Jewish family to an interment center and then to Auschwitz. Her parents were sent to the gas...
A Beautiful Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal by Jen Waite– 272 pages Book Blurb: What do you do when you discover that the person you’ve built your life around never existed? When “it could never happen to me” does happen to...
The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil – 384 pages Book Blurb: Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her...
Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island by Regina Calcaterra – 320 pages Book Blurb: Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early life, however, was...