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Also by Meryl Ain:

Remember to Eat and Other Stories, January 2026
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Shadows We Carry, May 2023
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SHADOWS WE CARRY
By: Meryl Ain

A Novel

SparkPress
May 2023
On Sale: April 25, 2023
296 pages
ISBN: 1684632005
EAN: 9781684632008
Kindle: B0B8CPLZH9
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Fiction Family Life

In this eagerly anticipated sequel to Meryl Ain’s award-winning post-Holocaust novel The Takeaway Men, we follow Bronka and JoJo Lubinski as they find themselves on the cusp of momentous change for women in the late 1960s. With the United States in the grip of political and social upheaval, the twins and a number of their peers, including a Catholic priest and the son of a Nazi, struggle with their family’s ancestry and how much influence it has on their lives. Meanwhile, both young women seek to define their roles as women, and as individuals.


Enlightening and evocative, Shadows We Carry explores the experience of navigating deeply held family secrets and bloodlines, confusing religious identities, and the scars of World War II in the wake of revolutionary societal changes.