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Jennifer Rosner in Person

Join us on Monday, March 20 at 7:30 PM as Jennifer Rosner launches her new novel, Once We Were Home.

PLEASE NOTE: THE LOCATION FOR THIS EVENT WILL BE THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 1 CHURCH STREET, SOUTH HADLEY

DIRECTLY ACROSS THE GREEN FROM THE ODYSSEY

New date: Monday, March 20

New time: 7:30 PM

About the Book

From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II.

Ana will never forget her mother’s face when she and her baby brother, Oskar, were sent out of their Polish ghetto and into the arms of a Christian friend. For Oskar, though, their new family is the only one he remembers. When a woman from a Jewish reclamation organization seizes them, believing she has their best interest at heart, Ana sees an opportunity to reconnect with her roots, while Oskar sees only the loss of the home he loves.

Roger grows up in a monastery in France, inventing stories and trading riddles with his best friend in a life of quiet concealment. When a relative seeks to retrieve him, the Church steals him across the Pyrenees before relinquishing him to family in Jerusalem.

Renata, a post-graduate student in archaeology, has spent her life unearthing secrets from the past--except for her own. After her mother’s death, Renata’s grief is entwined with all the questions her mother left unanswered, including why they fled Germany so quickly when Renata was a little girl.

Two decades later, they are each building lives for themselves, trying to move on from the trauma and loss that haunts them. But as their stories converge in Israel, in unexpected ways, they must each ask where and to whom they truly belong.

Beautifully evocative and tender, filled with both luminosity and anguish, Once We Were Home reveals a little-known history. Based on the true stories of children stolen during wartime, this heart-wrenching novel raises questions of complicity and responsibility, belonging and identity, good intentions and unforeseen consequences, as it confronts what it really means to find home.

About the Author

Jennifer Rosner is the author of the novels Once We Were Home and The Yellow Bird Sings, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Awardthe memoir If A Tree Falls: A Family's Quest to Hear and Be Heard, about raising her deaf daughters in a hearing, speaking world; and a children's book, The Mitten String, which is a Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable. Jennifer's writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Massachusetts Review, The ForwardGood Housekeeping, and elsewhere. She lives in western Massachusetts with her family.

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Event date: 
Monday, March 20, 2023 - 7:30pm
Event address: 
9 College St
South Hadley, MA 01075
Once We Were Home: A Novel By Jennifer Rosner Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250855541
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Flatiron Books - March 14th, 2023

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