“Once we were Home” Book Club Discussion on Zoom

National Jewish Book Award Finalist · Association of Jewish Libraries Fiction Honor Book

Beautifully evocative and tender, filled with both luminosity and anguish, Once We Were Home reveals a little-known history. Based on the true stories of children stolen during wartime, this heart-wrenching novel raises questions of complicity and responsibility, belonging and identity, good intentions and unforeseen consequences, as it confronts what it really means to find home.

Her previously published books include the memoir, IF A TREE FALLS: A Family’s Quest to Hear and Be Heard, and the picture book, THE MITTEN STRING, a Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable and THE YELLOW BIRD SINGS. In addition to writing, Jennifer teaches philosophy. She received her BA from Columbia University and her Ph.D. from Stanford University, and lives in western MA with her family.