Qesher Book Club: Finding Home (Hungary, 1945)

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For nine months in Auschwitz, eighteen-year-old Eva Fleiss clung to sanity by playing piano on imaginary keyboards. After liberation, Eva and the  five remaining Jews of Laszlo, Hungary, journey home, seeking to restart their lives. Yet the town that deported them is not ready to embrace their return. Longing for connection to her old life, Eva agrees to  clean her former home, now the mayor's home, in return for practice time  on her piano. As her profound experiences allow her to access music at a  depth she didn't know existed, Eva's performances begin to affect those  around her, with unexpected consequences.

Dean Cycon is an author, lawyer, human rights advocate, and social  entrepreneur who has lived and worked in over sixty countries. A  passionate explorer of culture and history, Dean seeks out unexamined  corners that illuminate the human condition. He has previously published  Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee, which was  awarded the Gold Medal for Best Travel Essay by the Independent  Publishers Association and has been translated into Chinese, Korean, and  Spanish. Finding Home (Hungary, 1945) is his first novel. Dean lives in  Western Massachusetts, USA.