After Julies’s mother, Eve, passes away of cancer, Julie finds a linen-bound journal in the back of her mother’s closet in New York City. The journal is filled with keepsakes and letters from her childhood, and sends Julie on a journey to learn more about her mother’s childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna and as a refugee and immigrant to the United States. This story weaves Julie’s personal memoir with the discoveries of her family history.

I love the photos included in the middle of the book to add to the visual history of this memoir as Julie takes the reader back and forth between wartime Europe and past and present-day America. If you are a history buff or a nonfiction reader who likes WWII, this book is for you.

Thank you to Suzy Approved Book Tours, Julie Metz, and Atria Books for the copy of this book!