"Incredible --in the literal sense of the word. How can a Jewish woman in late 20th-century America reconstruct her own matrilineal history across two centuries and an extinct civilization with only scant clues to help her? And how did the four generations of women she portrays survive deaths of parents and children, brutal anti-Semitism, poverty, suicidal depression, and the Holocaust? The plot reads like an epic novel but is simply the family history of a rather ordinary Jewish Czech family from the 19th century through today...

"Epstein has created an impeccable piece of historiography. The reader shares her triumph and sense of awe when she finds her grandmother's business listing in a 1910 Prague phone book long forgotten in a library's stacks. Where She Came From is just such a find, barely dreamed of yet so dear once discovered."
Lilith Magazine

New York Times review by Ruth Gay
Forward review by Susan Suleiman

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