“A beautiful memoir…[It] tells the story of mother-daughter relationships in a way that is fresh, honest, sad, and funny all at the same time.”
—Bustle
Read More“Told in a style that is anxiously charming, Batalion’s memoir asks what it means to both love our parents and to be free from their wreckage.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
Read More“Beautifully written…White Walls is a sophisticated, daring take on the effects of the Holocaust, and Batalion represents an important voice on contemporary Jewish identity”
—The Jerusalem Post
Read More“Batalion is a talented writer who balances the ups and downs, shares humor and heartbreak. Her sentences are beautiful: sometimes emotional, sometimes making you laugh out loud.”
—Mayim Bialik
Read More“This is a modern woman’s look at how we construct who we are—both through conscious, painstaking effort, as well as through acknowledging and embracing the comforting, familiar, and routine flows of our family histories.”
—Library Journal
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