Rooms for Vanishing

Each member of the Alterman family is certain they are the only one to have survived the war. But their story is one of maybe-lived lives, parallel worlds and possibilities, and one populated by ghosts . . . In the summer of 1938, Sonja is lifted onto a Kindertransport train that will take her from Nazi-occupied Austria to London. She leaves behind her parents, Fania and Arnold, and her baby brother Moses. She is the only member of her family to survive. In 1966, her mother Fania works as a massage therapist in Montreal, a place that has provided her safe haven after she lost her entire family in the war. In 2016 Vienna, Arnold lives out the last of his days in the city he has always called home. And in 2000, while Moses awaits the birth of his grandson in New York, he is visited by the ghosts of his past. Surely none of these realities co-exist, and yet they seem to be drawing closer . . . Moving between Vienna and Prague, London and Montreal, New York and Miami, Stuart Nadler's Rooms for Vanishing is the story of a family blown apart by war. Spellbinding and profound, it explores what might happen when grief and hope collide, in a masterful reimagining of the lost possibilities of history itself.