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Margot
by Jillian Cantor
"When I see them together, that way they look when they hold on to each other, I remember again that something is missing from me, something that feels like the phantom weight of a stolen limb or internal organ, something so grossly essential that I'm not quite sure how I remember to keep breathing all the time without it."
In this alternative historical fiction, Margot Frank, Anne Frank's sister, survived the holocaust and escaped to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She goes by the name Margie, says she is a Christian and wears sweaters to cover her tattoo even during the hottest of days. As she walks past a bookstore one day, she is startled to see her sister's face peering back at her in the just published talk of the town. Purchasing a copy she learned that her father survived but she cannot bring herself to contact him, to bring back any part of Margot into her life.
This was heartbreaking on so many levels. Margie struggles to build a life for herself in America that denies all that she used to be while mourning a loss so significant not one of us can comprehend it. The novel also nudges us a little to consider Margot as more than just the quiet sister of Anne. She also wrote a diary, would it have read the same or would things be different through different eyes?
In this alternative historical fiction, Margot Frank, Anne Frank's sister, survived the holocaust and escaped to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She goes by the name Margie, says she is a Christian and wears sweaters to cover her tattoo even during the hottest of days. As she walks past a bookstore one day, she is startled to see her sister's face peering back at her in the just published talk of the town. Purchasing a copy she learned that her father survived but she cannot bring herself to contact him, to bring back any part of Margot into her life.
This was heartbreaking on so many levels. Margie struggles to build a life for herself in America that denies all that she used to be while mourning a loss so significant not one of us can comprehend it. The novel also nudges us a little to consider Margot as more than just the quiet sister of Anne. She also wrote a diary, would it have read the same or would things be different through different eyes?