Member Reviews
For most of us, our mother are just our mothers. If they had a life before we, their children came along, it was almost surely, just…ordinary. That’s what Julie Metz thought about her mother, Eve. It wasn’t until after her mother’s death that Metz found a keepsake box filled with letters of goodbye to a little girl named Eva, in reality, her mother Eve. As Metz searched for clues to her mother’s past, she learns that her mother was a child in Nazi occupied Austria and the story of her escape from Hitler’s Final Solution. Grappling with her mother’s silence about her past, Metz must come to terms with the horrors her family survived and the sacrifices they made to save one another. This is a profound an beautiful book, one that will leave every reader deeply moved