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100 1  Petrowskaja, Katja,|d1970-|eauthor. 
245 10 Maybe Esther :|ba family story|h[Hoopla electronic 
       resource] /|cKatja Petrowskaja. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bHarperAudio,|c2018. 
264  2 |bMade available through hoopla 
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511 0  Read by Emma Gregory. 
520    An inventive, unique, and extraordinarily moving literary 
       debut that pieces together the fascinating story of one 
       woman's family across twentieth-century Russia, Ukraine, 
       Poland, and Germany. Katja Petrowskaja wanted to create a 
       kind of family tree, charting relatives who had scattered 
       across multiple countries and continents. Her idea 
       blossomed into this striking and highly original work of 
       narrative nonfiction, an account of her search for meaning
       within the stories of her ancestors. In a series of short 
       meditations, Petrowskaja delves into family legends, 
       introducing a remarkable cast of characters: Judas Stern, 
       her great-uncle, who shot a German diplomatic attach in 
       1932 and was sentenced to death; her grandfather Semyon, 
       who went underground with a new name during the Bolshevik 
       Revolution in Russia, forever splitting their branch of 
       the family from the rest; her grandmother Rosa, who ran an
       orphanage in the Urals for deaf-mute Jewish children; her 
       Ukrainian grandfather Vasily, who disappeared during World
       War II and reappeared without explanation forty-one years 
       later and settled back into the family as if he'd never 
       been gone; and her great-grandmother, whose name may have 
       been Esther, who alone remained in Kiev and was killed by 
       the Nazis. How do you talk about what you can't know, how 
       do you bring the past to life? To answer this complex 
       question, Petrowskaja visits the scenes of these events, 
       reflecting on a fragmented and traumatized century and 
       bringing to light family figures who threaten to drift 
       into obscurity. A true search for the past reminiscent of 
       Jonathan Safran Foers Everything Is Illuminated, Daniel 
       Mendelsohn's The Lost, and Michael Chabons Moonglow, Maybe
       Esther is a poignant, haunting investigation of the 
       effects of history on one family. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Petrowskaja, Katja,|d1970-|xFamily. 
650  0 Jews|zUkraine|vBiography. 
650  0 Jewish families|vBiography. 
650  0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 
700 1  Gregory, Emma,|enarrator. 
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