Adam Frankel

Frankel has essentially written a trilogy covering the Holocaust through to the #MeToo movement... a story of his grandfather in World War II, his mother's mental state, and his own search for identity. Frankel's own story caught me off guard with its genealogy twist. All three parts are emotional and it is easy to understand his struggle to understand his mother, then himself as he works his way through it all. By the end readers feel healing is possible. Well written!

This story touched me. It brought together things I have felt and observed. The secrecy that families have about certain things and the need for forgiveness and sometimes how difficult it is to do from the heart as opposed to the brain. The book has sections and I thought the different sections worked well on their only but as they wove together it made the story more universal and more emotional. I'm not a crier but I almost cried at the end.