{"product_id":"eva-and-eve-a-search-for-my-mothers-lost-childhood-and-what-a-war-left-behind-9781982127992","title":"Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this unforgettable and \"essential feminist memoir of women's lives\" (Sarah Wildman, author of \u003ci\u003ePaper Love\u003c\/i\u003e) the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling memoir \u003ci\u003ePerfection \u003c\/i\u003eunearths her mother's hidden past in in Nazi-occupied Austria.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo Julie Metz, her mother, Eve, was the quintessential New Yorker. Eve rarely spoke about her childhood and it was difficult to imagine her living anywhere else except Manhattan, where she could be found attending Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Opera or inspecting a round of French triple crème at Zabar's. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter her mother passed, Julie discovered a keepsake book filled with farewell notes from friends and relatives addressed to a ten-year-old girl named Eva. This long-hidden memento was the first clue to the secret pain that Julie's mother had carried as a refugee and immigrant from Nazi-occupied Vienna, shining a light on \"a story of political repression, terror, and dissolution...full of astonishing and unlikely twists of fate showing again that individual destiny may be the greatest mystery of all\" (Dani Shapiro, author of \u003ci\u003eInheritance\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A gripping and intimate wartime account with piercing contemporary relevance\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eReviews\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eEva and Eve\u003c\/i\u003e lyrically traces one woman's search for her mother's lost childhood while revealing the resilience of our forebears and the sacrifices that ordinary people are called to make during history's darkest hours.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulie Metz is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003ePerfection\u003c\/i\u003e. She has written for publications including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDame\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Tablet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Catapult\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGlamour. \u003c\/i\u003eShe has received fellowships at Yaddo, MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. You can find out more about Julie's writing life on Instagram: @JulieMetzWriter and her website: JulieMetz.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50568019378450,"sku":"9781982127992","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f7e3651a-99a5-4ac9-b3ee-13c60b450e5d.jpg?v=1731936370","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/eva-and-eve-a-search-for-my-mothers-lost-childhood-and-what-a-war-left-behind-9781982127992","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}