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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just got done listening to "Send For Me" by Lauren Fox.
It is about a Jewish family who immigrated from Germany to Wisconsin in 1938.  It was fiction, but the author based it on the actual letters she had found that her great grandmother, who stayed in Germany, wrote to them until the great grandmother died.   
I liked it, but . . .  
What I didn't care for was how the book kept jumping around in time between present day and the 1930's. 
What I did like about it was the narrative about the years leading up to the holocaust.  Things like Jewish and non-Jewish people being childhood playmates and friends in the 1920's, then not associating with each other any more. The slow insidiousness of hatred towards Jewish people.   I had never thought about that before. [/quote]

Thanks for sharing this.  I'll add it to my list.

You might want to check out "Days of Awe" (also by Lauren Fox).  I read it a few years ago and liked it a lot.  Engaging and more thought-provoking than a lot of the other contemporary fiction I've read lately about friendship/marriage/motherhood. [/quote]

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