GIt is always fun for me to talk to an author on their Pub Date. ey So I was so happy to welcome SUSAN WEISSBACH FRIEDMAN to discuss her debut novel, KLARA’S TRUTH. She has drawn upon her many years of experience as a trauma therapist to tackle a story that is compelling and insightful. It is a fascinating story as Friedman unravels the forgotten history of Klara’s confusing feels about a father who she thinks abandoned her. Finally after years of not dealing with her emotions she his forced to look into herself and the secrets her family going back to the traumatic events following the Holocaust. The journey to Poland is written with passion and deeply human emotions. A fascinating read. Bravo, Susan!
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About the Book:
It is May 2014, and Dr. Klara Lieberman—forty-nine, single, professor of archaeology at a small liberal arts college in Maine, a contained person living a contained life—has just received a letter from her estranged mother, Bessie, that will dramatically change her life. Her father, she learns—the man who has been absent from her life for the last forty-three years, and about whom she has long been desperate for information—is dead. Has been for many years, in fact, which Bessie clearly knew. But now the Polish government is giving financial reparations for land it stole from its Jewish citizens during WWII, and Bessie wants the money. Klara has little interest in the money—but she does want answers about her father. She flies to Warsaw, determined to learn more
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