In Memory of Memory Mayer Chloe Arendt escaped Nazi Germany in

Arendt escaped Nazi Germany in 1933

the second part is told in flashback by the protagonist

Winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents

Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community

’ – Kiran Millwood Hargrave 'Gloriously anarchic

In Memory of Memory Mayer Chloe Arendt escaped Nazi Germany inWith the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. Dipping into various forms