In My Mother's House: A Novel

In My Mothers House is a beautiful haunting and expertly told novel about a daughters obsession to understand her mothers commitment to silence about their familys 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; Jennys vivid memories of her uncles viola damore lessons; the smell of the wood floors in the familys Vienna home. Its an emotional story of what is inherited from one generation to the next.