Once We Were Home tells the stories of Jewish
children who were taken from their families during World War II and placed into
hiding with Christian families and institutions.
Their stories were both
heartbreaking and heartwarming. I cried, I laughed, and I worried. I grieved as
they discovered their lost connections and mourned the death of their families,
and I celebrated as they grew into their adult lives with greater
self-understanding and compassion.
Ana will never forget her mother's face when she and her baby brother, Oskar, were sent out of their Polish ghetto and into the arms of a Christian friend. For Oskar, though, their new family is the only one he remembers. When a woman from a Jewish reclamation organisation seizes them, believing she has their best interest at heart, Ana sees an opportunity to reconnect with her roots, while Oskar sees only the loss of the home he loves. Roger grows up in a monastery in France, inventing stories and trading riddles with his best friend in a life of…
Indians on Vacation follows husband and wife Bird
and Mimi, a First Nations couple, as they travel from Canada to Europe
following the discovery of a trove of old postcards from Mimi's late uncle
Leroy, who absconded with a valuable family heirloom 100 years earlier but
never returned.
This book was laugh-out-loud funny, leavened by King’s sly wit.
But as Bird and Mimi traverse Budapest, Prague, and other capitals,
encountering refugees and failed political systems, it forced me to think about
the political world we have created and what compassion really means.
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Inspired by a handful of postcards sent nearly a hundred years ago, Bird and Mimi attempt to trace long-lost uncle Leroy and the family medicine bundle he took with him to Europe.
“I’m sweaty and sticky. My ears are still popping from the descent into Vaclav Havel. My sinuses ache. My stomach is upset. My mouth is a sewer. I roll over and bury my face in a pillow. Mimi snuggles down beside me with no regard for my…
Bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island.
Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of
its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese,
Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their
homelands. Only nine-year-old Amir has survived the passage.
He is rescued by
Vanna, a teenage island resident who is determined to do whatever it takes to
save Amir. At times I recoiled in horror at humanity’s cruelty and
indifference. At other times I rejoiced in an example of empathy and hope.
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From the widely acclaimed author of American War, Omar El Akkad, a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic and profoundly moving novel that brings the global refugee crisis down to the level of a child's eyes.
More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over-filled, ill-equipped,…
In 1972, as part of a hippie commune, I left
the United States and moved to Canada.
What was I, a nice Jewish girl who had
grown up in an affluent family in the suburbs of New York, thinking?
This
memoir answers that question. It chronicles my adventures going back to the
land in the British Columbia wilderness, from building a cabin to slaughtering
chickens to cooking “carbon cakes” on the wood stove. And—oh, yeah—the time a
bear climbed through an open window into our cabin. It turned out to be the
adventure of a lifetime.
