Daily Excerpt: Good Blood (Schaffer) - Author's Note
excerpt from Good Blood (Schaffer) - Author Note People ask me when I began my journey with Good Blood, and my answer is always the same “when I was born.” I laugh when I say it, but it is true. As a child in MontrĂ©al, I would curl up next to my dad and beg to hear the stories of his childhood, his family, and his incredible war experiences. “Dad, tell me again how you had the bullets taken out without pain medicine and you didn’t even cry. Dad, tell me again how you healed.” “Dad, tell me again,” was my favorite line. With my mom, it was different. It was forbidden to talk to her about the holocaust for fear that she would faint, and I was always afraid she wouldn’t come to. Yet, as a child, I did know three things about her war experience, and those three things made a deep impact on me: She had exit papers to leave, but she stayed to help her parents. A Christian family hid her and her parents, and it was a Jew who informed on them. Her father gave her a gold chai