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Champion of the 2013 National Book Award from Grub Neighborhood, the 2013 Towson Award for Books, the Sterling silver Medal for Background from the 2012 ForeWord E book of the Year Awards, the 2013 Prakhin International Literary Basis Honor, and the 2013-14 Best E book Award from the Relationship for the Improvement of Baltic Studies. Shortlisted for the 2014 Saroyan Award. Ellen Cassedy's longing to recuperate the Yiddish she'd lost with her mother's loss of life eventually led her to Lithuania, and its capital, Vilnius, after the "Jerusalem of the North." As she prepared for her journey, her uncle, sixty years after he'd left Lithuania in a boxcar, made a stunning disclosure about his wartime experience, and an older man from her ancestral town made an unsettling demand. Gradually, what experienced begun as an individual journey broadened into a more substantial exploration of how the folks of this country, Jews and non-Jews as well, are confronting their former in order to move forward into the future. So how exactly does a land - how do successor decades, moral beings - overcome a bloody former? How do we judge the bystanders, collaborators, perpetrators, rescuers, and ourselves? These are the questions Cassedy confronts in We Are Here, one woman's exploration of Lithuania's Jewish record combined with an individual exploration of her own family's place in it. Digging through archives by making use of an area whose motives are puzzling to her; interviewing natives, including an old man who wants to "talk with a Jew" before he dies; discovering the complications encountered with a country that endured both Nazi and Soviet occupation - Cassedy sees that it's not just the reality of record that subject, but what we choose to do with them.
