Give Us This Day: A Memoir of Family and Exile

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In June 1944, when 14-year-old Stefan Wisniewski stood by his mother's dusty Tehran grave, he knew his world was about to change again, forever.Give Us This Day: A Memoir of Family and Exileexplores the story of one of the 732 Polish child survivors of wartime Soviet deportation offered unlikely refuge in New Zealand. Seventy years later, and no closer to a longed-for Polish homecoming, Stefan's New Zealand-born daughter revisits his past. What is the burden her father has carried all these years And why is he unable - or unwilling - to let it go With an aging father and the ghost of a namesake aunt as her guides, Helena Wisniewska Brow searches for meaning in the family lives shaped by exile: her father's, her mother's and her own.

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Helena Wisniewska Brow is a Wellington-based writer and former journalist, and the 2013 recipient of the Adam Prize in Creative Writing.After completing two short creative writing courses at Victoria Universitys International Institute of Modern Letters in 2009 and 2010, she gave up her work in public sector communications to tackle the 2013 Master of Arts in Creative Writing and to draft the full-length book which became Give Us This Day.