For fans of All the Light You Cannot See and The German Girl, Keeping Secrets is a remarkable debut, by a veteran American magazine journalist exploring her own family's flight from Poland.
Hannah Stone, now a successful New York City journalist, was smuggled out of Poland as a child with her parents after surviving the Holocaust. They remade themselves in America, harboring the deep scars of stories never told. Now in her thirties, Hannah learns a family secret that sends her back to where she came from, on the investigative journey of her life.
Replayed in cinematic flashbacks, of the family’s immigrant experience and war years on the run, alternating with the contemporary family drama in the U.S. and Communist Poland, Keeping Secrets hinges on the mystery of a sister who was left behind.
In this sweeping, suspenseful debut, Keeping Secrets reveals the agonizing choices World War II thrust upon so many, examining the enormous price of guilt and the very heart of identity.
Genre: Historical
Hannah Stone, now a successful New York City journalist, was smuggled out of Poland as a child with her parents after surviving the Holocaust. They remade themselves in America, harboring the deep scars of stories never told. Now in her thirties, Hannah learns a family secret that sends her back to where she came from, on the investigative journey of her life.
Replayed in cinematic flashbacks, of the family’s immigrant experience and war years on the run, alternating with the contemporary family drama in the U.S. and Communist Poland, Keeping Secrets hinges on the mystery of a sister who was left behind.
In this sweeping, suspenseful debut, Keeping Secrets reveals the agonizing choices World War II thrust upon so many, examining the enormous price of guilt and the very heart of identity.
Genre: Historical
Praise for this book
"In Bina Bernard’s stirring novel, Keeping Secrets, indelible scenes of loss, displacement and forgiveness unwind like a fever dream. A family that survives the Warsaw uprising and German occupation escapes to America, where they become obsessed with those they left behind. She is as unsparing in her descriptions of the horrors of World War II as she is when writing about love and courage and grace. In this rich novel, Bernard mines all of it with a deft hand and a warm heart." - Betsy Carter
"Bina Bernard has written a beautifully-paced, heartfelt and powerful novel of destruction and repair. The eternal story of survival." - Roger Rosenblatt
"Bina Bernard has written a beautifully-paced, heartfelt and powerful novel of destruction and repair. The eternal story of survival." - Roger Rosenblatt
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