Description: "Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother Sara had lived in France just as Hitler started to gain power in Europe, but rarely did anyone in her family talk about it--until long after her grandmother's death, she found a shoebox tucked in a closet. In it was a photograph of her grandmother with a mysterious stranger; a cryptic telegram from the Red Cross; and a drawing signed by Picasso. This discovery sent Freeman on a decade-long journey, as she tried to uncover the significance of these keepsakes. Her search took her from the Picasso archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in the Auvergne, from Long Island to Auschwitz. Here, Freeman pieces together the puzzle of her family's past"--
Brief description: Hadley Freeman is a staff writer for The Sunday Times in the UK. She was born in New York and lives in London. Her books include Life Moves Pretty Fast and the bestselling House of Glass, and her work has appeared in Vogue US and UK, New York magazine, Harper's Bazaar, and many other publications.
Review Quotes: "If you have a heart, this book will break it. Hadley Freeman forces us to understand the myriad responses of her family members to the anti-Semitism that sent many to their deaths while sparing others. She, like Dostoevksy, has produced a work that must stand as a classic of love and redemption." --Charles Glass, author of Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation