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Counterpoint LLC
May 2007
On Sale: April 30, 2007
327 pages
ISBN: 1582433666
EAN: 9781582433660
Hardcover
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Fiction
By the critically acclaimed author of Loverboy, The Border
of Truth balances the weight of a Holocaust survivor's
life upon his only daughter, as she tries to discover the
truth behind his vow of silence. During the 1940s a
seventeen-year-old European Jewish refugee aboard a ship
being returned to Nazi-occupied Brussels, after having
been denied American port, writes a series of letters to
Eleanor Roosevelt. He beseeches her intervention and tells
his own story (the girls he's kissed, the movies he's
seen). The minutiae of this young boy's life mix with the
mortal realities of the time in his communiqués.
Decades later, in contemporary Manhattan, Sara is
uncovering the secrets of her parents--secrets in which,
through silence, she's been complicit. The Border of
Truth is a multi-faceted exploration of the experience
of first-generation children of refugees (in this case of
the Holocaust), and the ways in which the stories of their
parents define their lives. Ultimately, these two very
separate timelines converge as Sara can no longer keep her
self-made promise not to ask her father what happened to
him and his family during the war. When he thwarts her
questions, the pieces of his puzzle find their way to her
on their own. Fascinating, mesmerizing, and gorgeously
told, The Border of Truth is a riveting read--sure
to bring Victoria Redel to the wide and appreciative
audience she so handsomely earns in these pages.
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