Rooms for VanishingA heart stopping epic of grief and hope, and one family blown apart across the globe, across time, across parallel possibilities by war. For the Alterman family, Fania and Arnold, and their children Sonja and Moses, the universe has been fractured. In 1938 Sonja is lifted onto a Kindertransport train that will take her from Nazi occupied Austria to London. She is the only member of her family to survive. In 1966 Fania works as a massage therapist in

slippery with blood

his whore and his alcoholic second son

It was not Haupmann's premonitions of disaster that so impressed themselves on Piper

is the worst place in the world and the gateway to a thousand worse places

' Trevor Wood

' ―Louise Erdrich

poetic Ellwood - not having a clue that Ellwood is in love with him

He wants to give them a chance to tell their side of the story

and Anna witnesses something no one was supposed to see

the rival Roman generals Caesar and Pompey have engaged in a contest for world domination

what it means to live with integrity when so much is so easily discredited it emerges as that rarest of discoveries: a truly gripping story

even in this newly forged era of peace