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It is at once a gripping investigation into family trauma, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanuary, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front, a photo of the Opéra Garnier in Paris. On the back, the names of Anne Berest's maternal great-grandparents, Ephraïm and Emma, and their children, Noémie and Jacques--all killed at Auschwitz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eYears after the postcard is delivered, the heroine of this novel is moved to discover who sent it and why. 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Her stories and articles have won several awards including a Pushcart Prize, Notable Mention in Best American Essays 2019, the Glimmer Train Fiction Open, Ploughshares Cohen Award for Best Story of the Year, the Katherine Anne Porter Award for Short Fiction from Nimrod International, and the David Nathan Meyerson Award for fiction from Southwest Review. 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