From the Publisher"Steinman's elegiac book is a powerful reminder of how ideologies can become 'crooked mirror[s]' that distort reality and destroy lives, cultures and nations." —Kirkus Reviews
"Lyrical yet magesterial...heartfelt, poignant, redemptive, and brave." —Los Angeles Review of Books
"Readers can be grateful to Ms. Steinman for bearing witness to those seeds of understanding being planted in lands where so much blood flowed." —The Wall Street Journal
"[Steinman] achieves something close to peace with those struggling intensely to understand and rectify Poland's Jewish past." —Foreign Affairs
"Louise Steinman's story is heroic in all the old senses of the word: a journey of a literal sort; a journey into the terrible past; and a journey into her own soul.
