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Alpern is the daughter of a Dutch Holocaust survivor mother and an Evangelical father from Indiana, who divorced early in her childhood. She discusses her memoir about an estranged father and daughter learning to communicate across the cultural divide in America. A related essay in the book recounts a Dutch mother’s escape from the Nazis to Surinam and her daughter’s struggle to break free from her mother’s trauma. Lisa Moses Leff, Professor of History, American University, calls the book “… beautiful and compelling …”
