Liv's Secrets

<p>Sharpeville South Africa 1960. A young white woman whose family survived the burning of villages and killings of Jews in pogroms in Lithuania in the 1880s must decide: keep her silence-or join the fight against apartheid.</p><p>           The Weisz family fled Lithuania with nothing but a vow to never again be victims of discrimination and violent oppression. Three decades later that promise has carried their descendants across oceans to the sun-scorched streets of Johannesburg-where freedom for black people is measured in passbooks and dissent is a potential death sentence.</p><p>           Liv Weisz believed her family had already paid for their freedom but when the Sharpeville massacre leaves the township streets with sixty-nine bodies shot in the back and a nation on edge remaining silent becomes a luxury she can no longer afford.</p><p>           Drawn into the underground resistance of the anti-apartheid movement Liv discovers she has her family's skills at survival learned in Europe decades earlier; but that becoming invisible is not just a survival tactic but also a weapon. In 1960s South Africa her home now a safe house her life is no safer than that for her grandmothers in the shtetl.</p><p></p><p><em>           Liv's Secrets</em> a sweeping multi-generational family saga spanning 20th century South African history from the Lithuanian shtetls to the townships of Johannesburg is a must read for fans of among others historical family sagas like <em>the Covenant of Water</em> <em>Pachinko</em> and <em>Homegoing.</em></p><p></p><p>Some prices for freedom are paid in blood. Some in everything you were before.</p>