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never left Friedman’s extended family. “The burden of exile, estrangement, and strangeness, a sense of Unheimlichkeit, of never quite being at home, is my family burden” (p. 257). As a reader, we accompany Friedman on every step of her arduous work to recover, reconnect, and interpret. We are lost with her with forlorn fragments that cannot be repaired. A book worthy of our attention and time. A book that reminds us that violent conflagrations do not end when the flames are doused, and that we better pay attention to the dangers of social fragmentation, political unrest, and despotic regimes.