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begins in the French seaside city of Saint-Malo, in 1939, and ends in the American Midwest in 1989. In these linked stories, the war reverberates through four generations of a Jewish family. Inspired by the author’s family stories as well as extensive research, Heirlooms explores assumptions about love, duty, memory and truth.
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Heirlooms won the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction from BkMk Press, selected by Marge Piercy, and has received endors4ements from Joanna Scott (“a masterful collection, infused with devastating beauty…Hall succeeds in animating loss, preserving memory, and adding powerful imaginative truth to the historical record.); Steve Almond (“Hall traces the fragile resilience and quiet horrors of those displaced by war.She happens to be writing about the Second World War, but these are stories that speak to the essential human experiences of exile and loss and survival.”); and Nancy Reisman (“Hall’s vision crosses borders and generations, through language at once lyrical and deeply distilled.”)
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