In the decades since her death, Anne Frank has become not just a person who once lived, breathed, and wrote but a symbol: a secret door that opens into a kaleidoscope of meanings…. Anne’s transformation into an icon has had the effect of obscuring who she really was. She becomes whoever and whatever we need her to be.
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“This tour de force sets the standard for anyone thinking about Anne Frank for years to come.”—Dara Horn, author of People Love Dead Jews
“A moving, clear-eyed tribute. A triumph.”—Heather Clark, author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
“She executes a difficult balancing act with subtlety, returning the diary to its context while also amplifying the voice of its author.”—Stacy Schiff, author of The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
Events
January 27, 7 pm: Marlene Myerson JCC (Manhattan), with filmmaker Chen Drachman and author Dani Shapiro (in person)
January 28, 7 pm : Center for Jewish History (Manhattan), with author Jonathan Rosen (in person and livestream)
January 29, 7 pm: Politics and Prose (Washington, D.C.), with journalist Franklin Foer
February 1, 7 pm: The Ivy Bookshop (Baltimore, MD)
February 4, 4:30 pm: New York State Writers Institute (SUNY Albany)
February 5, 7 pm: Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism (online)
February 6, 7 pm: Greenlight Bookstore (Brooklyn), with author Leslie Jamison