A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile

Praise

Praise for A Woman in Amber

*Winner of the American Book Award
*Named Outstanding Academic book by Choice
*Selected for Outstanding Achievement Recognition by the Wisconsin Library Association Literary Awards Committee

“With stunning effect, [Agate Nesaule] conveys the anguish of a life frozen in the lingering devastation of war and exile. The tenacity of her childhood pain makes the ‘healing’ of her subtitle all the more astonishing and important . . . Like all the best modern memoirs, A Woman in Amber belongs to the quest literature of our times. It is a story both heroic and achingly humble. It draws the reader forward with the suspense of a novel, a tale told in the unmistakable voice of one searching urgently for integrity as if it were a cure. And in this memoir the cure is found.”
—The New York Times
 
“Disturbing and timely commentary on the fate of women in war. What if Jerzy Kosinski or Roman Polanski had experienced WW II as young girls? Nesaule, whose experience parallels theirs in some ways, speaks with a distinctly feminist voice in her account of her own emotionally scarring struggle to survive.”
—Kirkus Reviews
 
“Moving . . . A well-written and insightful memoir.”
—Publishers Weekly