Louise Steinman

A literary memoir that explores the growing Polish-Jewish reconciliation movement

Historically war literature has been by and about men at the front. As described in the previous edition, "The Souvenir presents the female side of the equation: a legacy of war stories left inadvertently to a daughter by a father who only wished to forget." At turns poetic and journalistic, Steinman's cross-generational memoir asks vital questions about the impact of war and views the fallout of a soldier's secrets by one daughter's probing light.