Not Me

Not Me is a remarkable debut novel that tells the dramatic and surprising stories of two menfather and sonthrough sixty years of uncertain memory distorted history and assumed identity. When Heshel Rosenheim apparently suffering from Alzheimers disease hands his son Michael a box of moldy old journals an amazing adventure beginsone that takes the reader from the concentration camps of Poland to an improbable love story during the battle for Palestine from a cancer ward in New Jersey to a hopeless marriage in San Francisco. The journals which seem to tell the story of Heshels life are so harrowing so riveting so passionate and so perplexing that Michael becomes obsessed with discovering the truth about his father. As Michael struggles to come to grips with his fathers elusive past a world of complex and disturbing possibilities opens up to hima world in which an accomplice to genocide may have turned into a virtuous Jew and a young man cannot recall murdering the person he loves most; a world in which truth is fiction and fiction is truth and one mans terribleor triumphanttransformation calls history itself into question. Michael must then solve the biggest riddle of all: Who am I?Intense vivid funny and entirely original Not Me is an unsparing and unforgettable examination of faith history identity and love.