![]() ![]() As with most pre-teens and teenagers, she's often angst-ridden. The child, remembered by her adult self, is no sort of angel. The first-person narrator simply states at one point that her father has told her that her grandmother couldn't live much longer-and that the father will notify the child when the grandmother dies. This is not a spoiler, since the woman was elderly and frail even at the beginning. For example, the 'Jewish' grandmother (not Jewish by her own standards, but according to the 'racial' definition of the Nuremberg laws) does die in this book. Other things, however, seem to have been deliberately elided. Leaving out things the child hadn't known is arguably a sensible decision, although there should have been more footnotes providing updates. The author leaves out a lot of things she discovered later (for example, her father was undoubtedly forced to divorce her mother, because this was required by the Nuremberg Laws of 1934). ![]() Despite the fulsome blurb and the slightly less uncritical Foreword, this is not a particularly extraordinary book. ![]()
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