Enia started reading Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton

Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story …
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A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story …

"In the 1930s, as waves of war and persecution were crashing over Europe, two young Jewish women began separate journeys …
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This book focuses on the story of M Gessen's relatives surviving the Holocaust and the Soviet regime. And I was struck by how miraculous her family's story seems. I've felt the same way about the stories I read and heard from others. I've had the same said to me. and I think the reason for that is... surviving from 1917 to 1946 truly was a miracle. I looked this up: Belarus's population in 1914 was 8,961,800. it is barely greater than that today. After the Civil War and holodomor it drops as low as 5M in 1926. It barely recovers through 1937, only to be destroyed during the war. So 4M people are lost between 1914 and 1926, and then at least another 2.5M are lost during the war, nearly a million of them Jews. So out of a population of 10M, if your Jewish grandparents who grew in Belarus survived the war, they were among just 100K people who did (if my back of envelope math is correct). No wonder we're all cousins, and our grandparents' biographies feel made up.

"In the 1930s, as waves of war and persecution were crashing over Europe, two young Jewish women began separate journeys …

It’s footy season in Melbourne, and Helen Garner is following her grandson’s under-16s team. She not only goes to every …
@kingrat the last book I read, Strangers, is at least in part about this very topic.

Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and …

It’s footy season in Melbourne, and Helen Garner is following her grandson’s under-16s team. She not only goes to every …