Just Enough to Start Over (1925)

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"This beautiful and deeply moving novel by Sara Gothelf Bloom takes us through a very hard time in history, but there is so much soul on display that one can only rejoice. Hanna is among the vivid characters in contemporary fiction, and she—with the Dubrovsky sisters from the earlier generation of this marvelous family—will stay in my mind. Just Enough to Start Over is an impressive achievement, one that reminded me at various times of I.B. Singer. A vivid chronicle, told with poetic specificity and hard-won elegance." —Jay Parini, author of The Last Station and Borges and Me "A gorgeously written novel, all at once profound, relatable, and wry. Something narratively miraculous is going on in this realistic, unsaccharine telling of the people, places, and talents that saved three beautiful sisters fleeing Nazi Germany. Woven throughout is the mystery of their stolen art—its plunderers and its