Not Paradise: Four Women's Journeys Beyond Survival

How do you collect the shattered pieces of a broken mirror and put them back together. without the reflections of your own fractured face leering back at you? How can you handle these jagged fragments and not suffer deep cuts that bleed?' Anna Roarer Bay. author of Sister. Sister (shortlisted in the Age Book of the Year and the New South Wales Premier's Awards), draws together the moving and revealing stories of four women who emerged from the honors of the Holocaust and strove to reconstruct their shattered lives on the opposite side of the globe, in the safe, sun-filled bad of Australia. She explores their tenacity to hold on to life and keep moving forward and entwines their stories with her own personal journey beyond the loss and despair of a broken marriage to weave a compelling and fascinating inquiry into how we understand the past where we find the courage and resilience to continue in the fact of suffering and hardship, and how we can discover a way forward. beyond trauma, to a fife of hope and fulfilment.

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