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Early in The Sweetness, an inquisitive young gal asks her grandmother why she is carrying only a jug of sliced lemons and normal water when they are compelled by the Germans to evacuate their ghetto. "Something sour to remind me of the sweetness," she instructs her, setting up the theme for what they need to remember to endure. Established during World Battle II, the novel is the parallel story of two Jewish girls, cousins, living on different continents, whose strikingly different lives in the end converge. Brooklyn-born Mira Kane is the 18-year-old daughter of the well-to-do maker of women's knitwear in NY. Her cousin, eight-year-old Rosha Kaninsky, is the lone survivor of a family group in Vilna exterminated by the invading Nazis. But unbeknownst to her American family, Rosha didn't perish. Desperate to save lots of his only child throughout a roundup of these ghetto, her daddy thrusts her in to the arms of the Polish Catholic candlemaker, who then hides her in a main cellar - placing her own family vulnerable. The headstrong and gifted Mira, who dreams of escaping Brooklyn for a profession as a designer, detects her ambitions abruptly thwarted when, traumatized at the destiny of his Western relatives, her daddy becomes intention on safeguarding his family members from threats of the brutal world, and everyone must test his unuttered but injurious survivor guilt. Though the American Kanes experience the experience of the Jews who received out, they disclose how even in the safety of our lives, we have been profoundly afflicted by the dire circumstances of others.
