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
May 14, 7 pm: Morristown Jewish Center (online)—register here
June 7-8 (various times): Hobart Festival of Women Writers
June 9, 7 pm: in conversation with Judith Shulevitz, Scribblers on the Roof (Ansche Chesed synagogue, 251 W. 100th St., New York)
June 12, 8 pm: Jewish Women’s Archive Book Club—register here
June 18, 6:30 pm: in conversation with Ross Benjamin, Big Red Books, Nyack, NY
June 26, 2 pm: Leo Baeck Institute Book Club—register here