"Deftlystructured and . . . seamless." --Globe and Mail (Toronto)
" A]nuanced and layered portrait of betrayal. . . . The strength of Far to Golies in Pick's ability to show precisely why one person could turn on another, how a single word spoken on impulse could have devastating results." --MontrealGazette
Alison Pick, acclaimed author of The Sweet Edge, delivers the moving and suspenseful story of an affluentJewish family in Czechoslovakia at the onset of World War II, and the governesswho forever alters their future when she seeks...
"Deftlystructured and . . . seamless." --Globe and Mail (Toronto)
" A]nuanced and layered portrait of betrayal. . . . The strengt...
Profound, honest, and masterfully written--Between Gods forces us to reexamine our beliefs and the extent to which they define us.
Growing up in a tight-knit Christian family, Alison Pick went to church regularly. But as a teenager, she discovered a remarkable family secret: her paternal grandparents fled from the Czech Republic at the start of WWII because they were Jewish. Tragically, other family members who hesitated to emigrate were sent to Auschwitz.
Haunted by the Holocaust, Alison's grandparents established themselves in their new lives as Christians. Not even...
Profound, honest, and masterfully written--Between Gods forces us to reexamine our beliefs and the extent to which they define us.
