Reading Claudius

In Reading Claudius, Caroline Heller does what Rilke called the “heart-work,” exploring moral accountability and the toll exacted by the fact of survival. Her family story begins in pre-war Czechoslovakia, passes through the Nazi holocaust, and continues on in postwar America, affirming that events may end but repercussions never do. A searching and humane memoir. Sven Birkerts , author of The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again In this unforgettable dual memoir of her parents’ lives and her own,