In My Mother's House

In My Mother''s House is a beautiful haunting and expertly told novel about a daughter''s obsession to understand her mother''s commitment to silence about their family''s experiences during WWII Vienna. The story of Elizabeth and her mother Jenny is remarkable for its fullness of details: the pieces of family silver the grandmother mails to Jenny piece by piece over the years; Jenny''s vivid memories of her uncle''s viola d''amore lessons; the smell of the wood floors in the family''s Vienna home. It''s an emotional story of what is inherited from one generation to the next.