"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Aftermath is a powerful look at healing, forgiveness, breaking old patterns and, ultimately, finding ways to remember the past while being able to live a life of peace and joy in the present. As Allison moved into adulthood, she began to examine more deeply the reasons why the family history empowered and made resilient people like her grandmother, whose life was a triumph until the day she died, well into her 90s-while it haunted and ultimately destroyed others, like her mother who took her own life at the age of 51. It took a long time (almost 20 years from its start) and it isn’t always pretty, but it is as honest, intriguing and powerful an account of a family history that you. With her most recent book, AFTERMATH, Allison has written the story she feels she was born to write. The tales of Holocaust survival shared by her maternal grandparents and by their only child-Allison’s mother-were so ingrained in all aspects of everyday life that it wasn’t until Allison was older that she realized not everyone’s grandparents were Holocaust survivors. A native of Washington, DC, Allison lives with her family in South Florida. Allison Nazarian grew up in the Washington, DC, suburbs, living a comfortable American life while at the same time being surrounded by stories of Auschwitz, of lost family members, of destroyed dreams and of miracles. It is about the delicate balance between a proud legacy and a burdensome responsibility. It is about reconciling memories of a tragic past with hopes for a better future. The first-of-its-kind memoir by a "3G," or grandchild of Holocaust survivors, AFTERMATH is about being born into a history that never goes away.
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