"I have always known that writing overtly about the horrors of the Holocaust is beyond my abilities and beyond my ambition and perhaps even beyond what I feel art can accomplish. For me the challenge, as a writer and perhaps even as a person, is how to do justice to the lives and experiences of both my grandmothers; the woman who died at ninety-five surrounded by family members who loved her, and the woman murdered in the forest in Eastern Europe. But perhaps even that is saying too much. Perhaps it is only to do justice to my own experience as the grandchild of those two women. A grandchild of optimistic America and of tragic European experience."

A little book has never convinced me to convert as much as this one... ( )