The Border of Truth — Victoria Redel

TRUE AND IMAGINED EVENTS MERGE IN THIS STUNNING NOVEL ABOUT THE DEVOTION THAT BINDS A FATHER AND DAUGHTER, AND THE SECRETS THAT THREATEN TO TEAR THEM APART

Forty-one and a single professor, Sara Leader decides to adopt a child. In the process of creating a new family, she reluctantly begins to explore her father's secret history -- in particular, his flight as a seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee aboard a ship denied entry to America in 1940. Alternating between a teenage boy's exuberant letters to Eleanor Roosevelt and Sara's sifting through the fragments of her father's traumatic wartime choices, Victoria Redel brilliantly imbues her characters not only with bravery and strength but with the humor and imagination needed to survive the pain of the past and the uncertainty of what lies ahead.