NOW: Grieving the loss of her mother, college student Lilah is hoping to reconnect with her ever-distant grandfather who refuses to talk about his past. When a fellow student in Italy brings a long-lost family heirloom to her attention, Lilah travels to Rome with her grandfather in the hopes of unlocking his history as a survivor of the Holocaust once and for all. But as they get closer to the truth—and the possibility of healing through new connections—she begins to realize that some secrets may be too painful to unbury… THEN: It’s 1943, and nineteen-year-old Bruna and… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Period-typical antisemitism & Nazism
- Intergenerational trauma & survivor’s guilt
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death of a mother
- World War Two & the Holocaust (on-page)
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