In My Mother's House: a Novel First edition

In My Mother's House is a beautiful, haunting, and expertly told novel about a daughter?s obsession to understand her mother?s commitment to silence about their family?s experiences during WWII Vienna. The story of Elizabeth and her mother Jenny is remarkable for its fullness of details: the pieces of family silver the grandmother mails to Jenny, piece by piece, over the years; Jenny?s vivid memories of her uncle?s viola d?amore lessons; the smell of the wood floors in the family's Vienna home. It's an emotional story of what is inherited from one generation to the next.