In 1939 families in a remote Jewish village feel the war close in on them. There is nowhere else to go. At the suggestion of an eleven-year-old girl and a mysterious stranger, the villagers decide to reinvent the world: deny any relationship with the known and start over from scratch. But the real world continues to unfold alongside the imagined one, and soon our narrator must flee her village to find her husband,save her children, ,propel them toward a real and hopeful future.
"Merlington enhances Ausubel's deft character development by employing an equally subtle touch to vocally define personalities. She skillfully allows the author's lyrical prose to deliver all necessary drama and emotion. Listeners who embrace this unconven"
AudioFile Magazine
"...fantastical and ambitious...infused with faith in the power of storytelling."
New York Times
"Ausubel uses the history of her own great grandmother as the framework for her first novel, which fully evokes the horrors of the Holocaust by merely touching on events. A fabulist tale of love, loss, faith, hope, community, and, especially, the power of "
