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Yes, I'll second that. Many thanks for the great list HIMS, which I shall also be exploring further.
Sorry you didn't like the book,sun surfer. I seem to remember reading somewhere (but now can't find the reference) that earlier generations of Michaels' family were Holocaust survivors, and so she may have been drawing on family experiences, even though clearly she was not a survivor herself. She is certainly listed as being a Jewish Canadian author.
I expect that as with most Australian Jews, nearly all Canadian Jews have lost family members from that terrible time. So if that is the case with Anne Michaels, she could not help but be influenced by her family's history and experiences.
I didn't have any feeling that she was in any way exploiting the experiences of others of the Holocaust, but rather writing a meditation on those experiences of horror, grief, loss and the need to remember.
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