Circumference of Silence

by Jacquie Herz

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Pub Date 8 Jul 2021 | Archive Date 29 Sep 2024

Historical Fiction

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Description

As seen in Moment Magazine
"It's a beautiful, touching book." -Carol Paur, author of Isasnora Snores

It's been a week since the funeral, and Mali is at her mother's Manhattan apartment, ready to pack it up-at least that's what she thinks-until she discovers a manila envelope, propped up against the back of her mother's desk, and filled with a mass of unsent letters. Her mother's handwriting on the lined notepaper is so familiar, and the slight German accent Mali hears ticking through her words, so haunting.

Mali reads the memories of her mother's Jewish childhood in 1930s Berlin, then her life in war-torn London. But when she comes to her mother's account of her too-early marriage and the divorce that forced her to leave her young daughter in London and go to New York, Mali is thrust back into her own unhappy childhood, where that relentless ache for her absent mother, lodged like a stony pit inside her, must now be reconciled.

As seen in Moment Magazine
"It's a beautiful, touching book." -Carol Paur, author of Isasnora Snores

It's been a week since the funeral, and Mali is at her mother's Manhattan apartment, ready to pack...

A Note From the Publisher

Jacquie Herz doesn't remember a time in her life-even as a young child growing up in London-when writing was not part of it. She has been published in the Metropolitan Diary and Connecticut Section of the New York Times. And is a member of the Women's Fiction Writers Association and the Women's National Book Association. Splitting her time with her husband between Connecticut and Florida, she is currently working on her second novel.

Jacquie Herz doesn't remember a time in her life-even as a young child growing up in London-when writing was not part of it. She has been published in the Metropolitan Diary and Connecticut...

Advance Praise

"The book's voice is haunting, its characters compelling, and the story it tells an artful mix of historical and familial suspense. It is that rarity, a book both readable and important." -Jeffrey Skinner, Professor Emeritus, University of Louisville

"From the very first pages, it's this novel's remarkable gift to show history unfolding across generations, in a plot with roots in World War II Germany and a daughter still making sense of family stories. A riveting and wonderful book, memorable and vibrant." -Joan Silber, author of Secrets of Happiness

"I think this is an important book...this book can definitely help people broaden their understanding on the long-term impacts something like this had." -Fiction Vixen Reads

"It's a beautiful, touching book." -Carol Paur, author of Isasnora Snores