“Our family risked their lives to escape, and now you want to go back?”
“I would be teaching Jewish kids. I could have been one of those kids.”
This softened her mother some. “I just hope you’re not doing this for Nana’s sake,” she said.
“I’m not.”
“Because you don’t owe her anything. She wasn’t a good grandmother to you. She let us down.”
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“I know,” Meredith said. Now, five months later, she was on her way to a city in south-central Ukraine whose name she still couldn’t figure out how to pronounce.
Isabel E. Kaplan is an English concentrator in Currier House. She completed a thesis in fiction entitled “Reserved for America.” Isabel’s debut novel “Hancock Park” was published by HarperCollins in 2009 and made the Los Angeles Times bestseller list.