Innovative short stories explore echoes of the Holocaust upon survivors and their children, lessons of post-trauma for the 21st century.

In eleven compelling stories inheritors of the Holocaust strive to seize whatever life has left to them.

International award-winning author Helen Schary Motro's intimate and poignant fiction paints the panorama of their emotional canvas: renewal as well as trauma, insight as well as sorrow, ingenuity as well as loss. Some fail to recover, while others do all to achieve solace.

• Unable to pierce her parents' wall of hidden mourning, a child dreams her perished grandparents back to life.

• A Yiddish actor turns radio host after the war - until his language becomes obsolete. Can he reinvent himself yet again?

• Hoarding discarded cigarette butts from her parents' ashtrays, a girl smokes in secret to mimic the grandmother who starved in the ghetto.

• A reluctant piano student learns that master classes teach more than concertos.

• A survivors' daughter yearns to live her American dream at the Thanksgiving Day Parade, but the subway from Brooklyn takes her farther away.

• Facing Israel's imminent annihilation an assimilated survivor discovers what she really cares about.

Readers will cry at their pain, will smile with recognition - may even laugh - along with Motro's moving survivors and their children as the past continues to reverberate upon them.

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