This astonishing debut novel unfolds in compelling, delicately wrought layers. Naiko's shifting understanding of Andrei's past becomes an opaque reflection of her own existence, and objects-from the pens hoarded by Naiko's motherin her retirement home to the personal effects of Jewish women that Andrei's grandmother sorts through at Birkenau-become touchstones for memories and meaning, loss and love.
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