"The author's tone is often elegiac . . . A thoughtful, notable addition to the literature of the Holocaust and those survivors who started anew in America . . . a poignant memoir." Kirkus Reviews
"This priceless recapturing of darkened history, this lifetime's rumination on family results in a stunningly intelligent and elegantly written work, whose honesty, maturity, perspective, and wisdom are so rare in today's memoirs. I found it utterly engrossing." Phillip Lopate, author of To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
"Poignant . . . a fascinating memoir." The Jewish Journal
"Evelyn Toyntons memoir is a work that foregrounds personal reflection, demonstrating the many ways a memoir can articulate difficult emotions and memories. When the author touches on the experiences of each woman, her writing style is varied and unique. She describes how the women diverged from both German culture and traditional gender expectations. Toynton also explores the ways in which they found liberation despite lossdespite the cruel destruction of the orderly world that their ancestors were promised."Jewish Book Council
"This book enchanted me in every way. With Toynton's signature intelligence, subtlety and wit, she describes members of her family deracinated through no fault of their own in portraits that are by turns surprising, hilarious and heartbreaking. They speak to the punishment of expulsion, the longing for what was left behind, the finality of exile. I shall reread this book at least once a year to remind myself of what a good memoir can be." Lynn Freed, author of The Romance of Elsewhere
"Evelyn Toynton's German Jewish family was one of the lucky ones, who escaped the Holocaust and made it to America. But her tragic, comic, sharply observed memoir shines a brilliant light on their fate, 'marooned for life', as she writes of her uncle, in a strange loneliness. Carole Angier, author of Speak, Silence: In Search of W.G. Sebald
