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An award-winning journalist tells her haunting family story.

Table of Contents

• Prologue
• Part 1
• 1 Daddy Mad Face, Daddy Angel Face
• 2 Making it up
• 3 In the basement
• 4 The bar mitzvah
• 5 It’s snowing in Vancouver
• Part II
• 6 On the beach
• 7 The girl from Ipanema
• 8 A call in the night
• 9 A brief history of shouting at the newspaper
• 10 Visitors from New York
• 11 Eriza krank mentsch
• Part III
• 12 Driving to Treblinka
• 13 Stolpersteine and stelae
• 14 Uncle Paul
• 15 On the rocks
• 16 The Psych
• 17 Comparing notes
• 18 Rooted in this soil
• 19 Zelechów
• Part IV
• 20 A mitzvah

About the Author

Diana Wichtel is an award-winning journalist. She has been a feature writer and television critic at New Zealand Listener for 32 years. After gaining an MA at Auckland University she tutored English before moving to the Listener in 1984. She has written dialogue for television and a New Zealand Herald column. She was a 2016 holder of the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship.