Confidential: A Novel | 
pickThis one was structured differently than the books I usually read, but I found it refreshing. It doesn‘t have a linear storyline but follows the lives of several unnamed characters in a family: grandparents, parents, and their two sons. It goes back and forth in time, sometimes the characters are younger, sometimes they are grown (even the sons). We see them through some very tough times, but in between the tragedies… ⬇️
jen_the_scribe …there are funny moments and plenty of love. There‘s some dark, sometimes vulgar, humor. The grandparents were survivors of the Holocaust. At the root of it, this book is about all the things we inherit from our families (including the trauma). For some things, we are just like our parents and for others we take what we are given and make something new out of it. I loved this book and it‘s a fairly short read. 2w
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