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It is May 2014, and Dr. Klara Lieberman—forty-nine, single, professor of archaeology at a small liberal arts college in Maine, a contained person living a contained life—has just received a letter from her estranged mother, Bessie, that will dramatically change her life. Her father, she learns—the man who has been…
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This book is deeply human and heart-wrenching.
The story, about a middle-aged professor named Klara, who travels to Poland to find out information about her disappeared father, intrigued me since I have Polish heritage, and I was making plans to travel there. I was fascinated by the cemeteries Klara visits and their history.
But I also appreciated Klara’s personal story—a desperate need to heal from an abusive childhood involving an emotionally distant mother who lies to her about her father and refuses to protect her from a sexually abusive family friend.
I was captivated by how Klara learns to confide…
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