The jewel -- Michalishek -- The watch doctor -- War! -- The saints and the pure -- The synagogue prison -- Planet of death -- Bubbie -- Ringeltaube -- The watchmaker's brigade -- The bicycle -- Abraham and Lea Perecman -- The survivors of New Haven -- The trauma gene -- The bird in the purgatorial flame -- All she has -- Polestar -- Three generations of Frankels -- The monarch and the footservant -- Genealogical bewilderment -- Hope -- Who am I? -- The gamblers -- The Perecman way -- A pattern of instability -- Secret baby -- The phases of forgiveness -- Reborn.
Summary
A former Obama speechwriter unravels a shocking secret in his family’s past that causes him to re-examine his family’s legacy of surviving the Holocaust and come to terms with who he really is.
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