TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gillham,David R.
TI  - Shadows of Berlin: a novel 
SN  - 9781728250441
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Naperville, Illinois
PB  - Sourcebooks Landmark
KW  - Jewish refugees
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Jewish women
KW  - Holocaust survivors
KW  - Guilt
KW  - Post-traumatic stress disorder in women
KW  - Psychic trauma
KW  - Novels
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - Includes reading group guide and a conversation with the author (pages 391-395)
N2  - "1955 in New York City, the city of progress. But in the Perlman residence, the past is as close as the present. Rachel Perlman, a child of Berlin and an artist bearing her mother's legacy, arrives in New York as part of the wave of Jewish Displaced persons who managed to survive the brutalities of the war. But despite her efforts, Rachel is unable to live the "normal" life of an American housewife, not until she can shake the ghosts of her past and the tremendous guilt that weighs down on her: her own "crime" of survival"--
ER  -