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Lori Ann Bloomfield lives in Toronto, Canada where she is hard at work on her second novel. She also writes the First Line blog (http://firstlinefiction.blogspot.com) a source of inspiration for fiction writers.

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Saul cracked one bloodshot eye open to glare at the dripping tap.

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Quiet Americans
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In the seven stories that comprise Quiet Americans Erika Dreifus writes about immigrant survivors of the Holocaust. This collection was inspired, in part, by Dreifus’s own grandparents who left Germany and immigrated to the US in the late 1930s. The...more In the seven stories that comprise Quiet Americans Erika Dreifus writes about immigrant survivors of the Holocaust. This collection was inspired, in part, by Dreifus’s own grandparents who left Germany and immigrated to the US in the late 1930s. The stories are ordered by time, beginning in prewar Berlin in, “For Services Rendered” about a Jewish doctor who owes his life, and the life of his family, to Goring’s wife. The stories then weave their way through the decades until reaching post 9/11 in the final story, “Mishpocha” about a man who uncovers a family secret while researching his family tree on the internet.
This is a strong collection and I am reluctant to single out one story to name as my favourite so let me call, “Lebensraum” the story that haunts me most. In this story we find ourselves in Iowa in 1944 with Josef, an immigrant Jewish baker assigned to oversee captured Germans in the kitchen of a prisoner-of-war camp. Each time I reread “Lebensraum” I find something new. There are so many quiet revelations, so many layers tucked within the deceptively straightforward plot that it is like rolling an opal in the palm of your hand and watching the endless play of light within the gemstone.
Since I have a personal fondness for linked stories it was a sweet surprise to discover that many of these stories are linked. The delicate thread that runs lightly through this collection, connecting several of the characters, works brilliantly to show how the echo of the Holocaust continues to reverberate down through the generations.
Given the subject matter of these stories you would be forgiven for thinking Quiet Americans might be a depressing read. But it isn’t. Though these stories are rooted in the horror of the Holocaust, they are also stories of love: of the love between men and women, of the love between parent and child. Dreifus has a talent for nimbly moving between darkness and light, and for never letting the reader forget that the world is made not of black and white, but of endless shades of grey. This is territory she is clearly comfortable in.
It is the hope and purpose of literature that in the telling of our stories we build bridges between people, that we foster understanding and compassion. Dreifus does this achingly well in Quiet Americans. It is a wonderful debut collection and I look forward to reading more from Erika Dreifus.(less)

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Old Filth
by Jane Gardam

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I loved this novel. Couldn't put it down. I'm looking forward to reading more by Jane Gardam.

Jan 10, 2011 07:30am · see review

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The Line of Beauty
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A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life by Nina Wise

A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life: Self Expression and Spiritual Practice for Those Who Have Time for Neither
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Aug 15, 2010 11:22am

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Jenny and the Jaws of Life
by Jincy Willett

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A great short story collection.

Jul 17, 2010 05:05pm · see review

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Lori Bloomfield gave

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The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 by Sue Townsend

The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 (Adrian Mole, #7)
by Sue Townsend

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I always enjoy Adrian Mole! The entire series is fabulous!

Jun 06, 2010 05:33pm · see review

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