Among the Reeds

Among the Reeds

Large Print edition for the visually impaired of this bestselling Holocaust memoir

Large Print Edition in font size 16 of Among the Reeds for the visually impaired in the Amsterdam Publishers Large Print Library.

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The Large Print Edition of Among the Reeds

When her son was born, Tammy Bottner experienced flashbacks of being hunted by the Nazis. The strange thing is, these experiences didn’t happen to her. They happened to her grandmother decades earlier and thousands of miles away.

Back in Belgium, Grandma Melly made unthinkable choices in order to save her family during WWII, including sending her two-year-old son, Bottner’s father, into hiding in a lonely Belgian convent. Did the trauma that Tammy Bottner’s predecessors experience affect their DNA? Did she inherit the “memories” of the war-time trauma in her very genes?

In this moving family memoir, told partly from Melly’s perspective, the author, a physician, recounts the saga of her family’s experiences during the Holocaust. This tale, part history, part scientific reflection on epigenetics, takes the reader on a journey that may read like a novel, but is all the more fascinating for being true.

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Author: Tammy Bottner
Series: Amsterdam Publishers Large Print Library, Book 3
Genre: Holocaust
Tags: Award-winning Publication, Foreign Rights Available, Holocaust memoir
Publisher: Amsterdam Publishers
Publication Year: 2017
Length: 376
ISBN: 9781974523504
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A beautifully-rendered portrait of a family forced to make unfathomable choices to survive appalling circumstances. The story is both poignant and informative, as the author includes a much-needed history lesson -- and glimpse into the human psyche -- at the end. Evocative writing and characters that spring from the pages make this a must-read.
– Deborah Levison
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Tammy Bottner

I am a physician, writer, and mom. I am also the child and grandchild of Holocaust survivors. I have been fascinated for years about the legacy I carry. It is a heavy one. In my new book I explore the science of epigenetics, the idea that traumatic life events change one's genes, and that these altered genes may be passed along to subsequent generations (such as myself).

In the book I recount the way my grandparents managed to save both themselves and their young children in the darkest days of European history. The book is an homage to my dad, a child survivor who was a 'hidden child', sequestered in a Belgian convent for 2 1/2 years when he was only a toddler.

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