"Margot" by Jillian Cantor is Jillian's idea of what might have happened if Anne Frank's sister, Margot, had survived the concentration camp and somehow escaped to America with the help of one of her mother's friends. Since she shows up listed as having died in the camp, her father and everyone else assumes she is dead and she is living life as a non-Jew, Margie Franklin, in Philadelphia.
The novel is well written and shares what it is like for Margot to hide her true self and the fact that she is Jewish and the conflict that results. She no longer wants to be a Jew but she still privately celebrates the sabbath in her small single apartment.
She is also conflicted about Peter, the young man in hiding with her family. They had a plan that, if they survived, they would come to Philadelphia under assumed names and find one another. What she finds when she searches for him is unexpected and what she finds in working for a young lawyer who is a Jew is also unexpected. It was well worth the read and I am glad it was recommended to me by a friend. pazt
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