Jumping Over Shadows: A Memoir
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Jumping Over Shadows: A Memoir
By (Author) Annette Gendler
She Writes Press
She Writes Press
18th May 2017
United States
Classifications
Physical Properties
Paperback
232
Width 139mm, Height 215mm
Description
A modern-day Romeo and Juliet story, this book will appeal to readers of romance and memoir alike.
Jumping Over Shadows is a second-generation Holocaust story, and the Holocaust and its impact continues to fascinate American readers. The U.S. Holocaust Museum averages 2.2 million adult visitors annually, has 165,000 members and 290,000 email subscribers. The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, focused on Jewish history before, during and after the Holocaust, drews 41,000 visitors annually.
On a more local level for the author, the Illinois Holocaust Museum in the Chicago suburb of Skokie, close to the authors hometown, has had 300,000 visitors since its opening in 2009.
Jumping Over Shadows is also a story of identity that addresses what 38% of Americans (Pew Study) do not consider where they live to be their home struggle with: Who are we if we are not from a specific place
Reviews
2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist in Relationships (Non-Fiction) Interwoven with the story of Gendler's great-aunt and illustrated with family photographs, the author's story offers an intimate and interesting . . . look at one woman's life choices and their outcomes . . . [a] candid and heartfelt memoir. Kirkus Piercing. The silver lining of hope, faith, and healing will leave readers stirred. Redbook Magazine Jumping Over Shadows is a timely and thought-provoking book, one that I urge people of all faiths and backgrounds to read and reread. Windy City Reviews Gendler skillfully integrates the history of her family, which she meticulously researched, with her own modern love story. Jewish Book Council Is it a fair comparison when the author weaves her love story with that of her great-aunt who married a Jew in Czechoslovakia fifty years before It turns out it is. Story Circle Book Reviews
Author Bio
Annette Gendler is a writer and photographer. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Tablet Magazine, Bella Grace, and Artful Blogging, to name a few. She served as the 20142015 writer-in-residence at the Hemingway Birthplace Home in Oak Park, Illinois. Born in New Jersey, she grew up in Munich, Germany, and lives in Chicago with her husband and three children. Visit her at www.annettegendler.com.
