Between Gods

Description

Alison Pick was born in the 1970s and raised in a loving, supportive family, but as a teenager she made a discovery that changed her understanding of who she was for ever. She learned that her Pick grandparents, who had escaped from Czechoslovakia during WWII, were Jewish, and that most of this side of the family had died in concentration camps. At this stage she realised that her own father had kept this a secret from Alison and her sister. Engaged to be married to her longterm boyfriend but in the grip of a crippling depression, Alison began to uncover her Jewish heritage, a quest which challenged all her assumptions about her faith, her future, and what it meant to raise a family. An unusual and gripping story, told with all the nuance and drama of a novel, this is a memoir illuminated with heartbreaking insight into the very real lives of the dead, and hard-won hope for all those who carry on after.

Promotion info

From the Man-Booker longlisted author of FAR TO GO, comes an unforgettable memoir about family secrets and the rediscovered past.

Author description

Alison Pick is the author of the novel FAR TO GO, longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, and winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award for fiction, and a memoir, BETWEEN GODS . She is also the author of two collections of poetry, and a novel, The Sweet Edge, all of which were published to wide acclaim. She lives in Toronto.