Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind
By Julie Metz
“Julie Metz is a beautiful writer. In Eva and Eve she masterfully weaves the present with the past, the sweep of history with the deeply personal. She takes us along as she uncovers her mother’s miraculous escape from Vienna and retraces her family’s footsteps as they flee the Nazis and remake their lives as refugees. This is not just a voyage of personal discovery and a daughter’s quest to understand her mother but an evocative, heart-wrenching book about love, family and resilience.”
—Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped
“One of the most engrossing, educational, emotional and yet effortless reads of the year so far, Eva and Eve is a stellar work of nonfiction. Weaving together multiple generations, Julie introduces us to her family and paints a vivid picture of Jewish life in Vienna prior to 1940. . . . this book is simply impossible to forget.”
—Zibby Owens, Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, for Good Morning America
“At first, Metz feeds us teaspoons of history, but soon the force of the story itself plunges us into the violent past with a cold splash. The book is tenderly written, particularly when we are so drawn in that it can feel like we have wandered into a diary, complete with details about the weather and the bloom of nature as the scenes unfold.”
—Linda F. Burghardt, Jewish Book Council