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Author: Lily Brett

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 0

From the award-winning author of 'Just Like That' and the acclaimed essay collection 'In Full View' comes a funny and moving novel about family, memory and Mercedes cars. Ruth Rothwax is a successful, feisty businesswoman with a healthy sense of irony to compensate for her three divorces. At Rothwax Correspondence, Ruth can find order and meaning in writing words for other people. But as the daughter of Edek Rothwax, an Auschwitz survivor with an idiosyncratic approach to spoken English, Ruth can often find no words to understand the loss her family experienced during WWII. Ruth knows she must return to Poland with Edek, but she doesn't quite know why. To make sense of her family's past, yes; but what happens in Poland is more than Ruth could possibly imagine. And this time she can't simply tap her right foot ten times to ward off evil spirits as she often does. This time, Poland, and the past, is waiting for her.