Genealogy of a Murder Quotes

“Our lives are prologue to one version of a story, and epilogue to another. We don’t get to see the “all of it”—or even the “more of it”—unless a family historian, or a fervent genealogist, or a somewhat obsessed author comes along to map the whole.”
― Lisa Belkin, Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

“Her cooking was terrible, her English minimal, and so their Sabbath dinner conversation was mostly her gesturing toward seconds of overdone meat and underdone potatoes while he pantomimed being full. Every so often she got up to yell at the cat in Yiddish.”
― Lisa Belkin, Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night