A dramatic journey from a nightmarish childhood in a Romanian concentration camp to the adult's painful fight for a meaningful existence. An impressive document of human resilience, a luminous portrait of a never embittered survivor, gifted with an exact Honest and brave. A monument to the dead of Transnistria, to a black mark in history and to an enduring spirit - Miami Herald Ruth Gold proves that the heart broken into a thousand pieces can be broken yet more . . . Read this book: it is filled with the stubborn light of the (barely describable) truth. -Andrei Codrescu, author of The Blood Countess