Going Back

16 women, 16 different life stories of fleeing the Nazis, acclimating to life abroad, and eventually moving back to Germany—the country that wanted to kill them. Each story is a vivid personal account as though from a diary. Taken together though, Going Back looks at how national and cultural identity can be shaped by the events of history.

272 pages
Release Date: 2018

Reviews:

“The book is a brilliantly composed account of a very different sort of diaspora and return. Each of the 16 strands is haunting and heartbreaking in its own way. The result is something quite distinct from the usual Holocaust memoir: a book that scrambles the very notion of a homeland and the ties that bind us to one.

A vital, understated contribution to the body of Holocaust literature.”-Kirkus Reviews, starred review