"I recommend this autobiographical narrative because it is grave and beautiful. Better still, it is shatteringly truthful."—Elie Wiesel "Susan Rubin was a little girl when her parents fled through darkened fields to escape the Communist regime in Hungary in 1949. . . . [This] is a poignant piece of self-revelation, sprinkled with some trenchant observations on the way the dead ... Read morehand of history has weighed down the former Warsaw Pact countries."—Kirkus "[A] fascinating, revealing journal . . . brutally honest."—Publishers Weekly "This pensive, forthright journal records Suleiman’s efforts to reconnect with a long-forgotten homeland."—Booklist "Suleiman lyrically describes her quest and the complex interaction of the Eastern Europe of the past and present."—Boston Globe "A tale of survival, adaptation and pure luck, whose darker side reveals the linguistic and emotional cost of emigration and exile, the feeling of permanent displacement, of being nowhere at home."—Forward "This story must speak to all those who have fled and who have ever dreamed of a return."—Independent Jewish Women’s Magazine "[A] thoughtful and sophisticated memoir. . . . You don’t have to be Hungarian or Jewish to appreciate writing like this."—Montreal Gazette "This book should provide interesting not only to an academic audience, but also to a wider public . . . The author’s personal reflections provide insight into a cultural experience which many Americans share: that of carrying with them a mixed, vaguely distant, and sometimes troubling cultural heritage."—Claudia Moscovici, Novel Show Less