Little Avalanches

Winner of the Rubery Book Award for 2024 Nonfiction Book of the Year Winner of the IAN Award 2024 Outstanding Military and War Little Avalanches is a gorgeously written memoir of breathtaking scope that propels readers from the beaches of California in the early ’70s to the battlefields of World War II. As a young girl, Becky is forced to hide from phantom Nazis, subjected to dental procedures without pain medication, and torn from her mother again and again. Growing up in the shadow of her fath