Through her accessible poetry and prose in this beautiful yet searing collection, Shirlee Sky Hoffman, who lived in post-Holocaust Germany twice in the 1970s, chronicles her initial reluctance to go to West Germany and the healing power of personal relationships with a close group of German contemporaries. She explores how remembering the Holocaust has affected her own life and the broader Jewish community, delves into the ironies of her family's history, and takes a hard look at the persistence of evil in today's world