Mylene Dressler

This is a simple story portraying very complex emotions. I wouldn't describe this as a story that I "couldn't put down" but rather one that I would "go back to" because it is one that stays in your heart. The writing style is truly fine-tuned and the flashbacks into the past are so well done.

The explanation of the line carved in the bottom of the sewing desk "When the Jews are gone, we will be the next ones", is so well done. Things are never as they seem.

This is a wonderful example of how each of us cannot escape our history, but we have choices: we either have to let it overcome us or come to terms with it.

I did go back to it and reread in 1-20018. Still a good story of an older man (who thinks himself old at not quite yet 70), who has to face his family's past and his emotions toward a woman whose husband is in a nursing home. This time through I might give it a 4 star but maybe because I had read it before.… (altro)