Men’s Club Book Group
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
One East 65th Street
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  ur February session will focus on The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, written by Daniel Mendelsohn (published by HarperCollins). The Lost begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust — an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939 and tantalized by fragmentary tales of a terrible betrayal, Daniel Mendelsohn sets out to find the remaining eyewitnesses to his relatives’ fates. That quest eventually takes him to a dozen countries on four continents and forces him to confront the wrenching discrepancies between the histories we live and the stories we tell. And, it leads him, finally, back to the small Ukrainian town where his family’s story began and where the solution to a decades-old mystery awaits him. Read an excerpt of the book. Watch a video interview with the author. |
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