Forgetting

"Finkelstein's fascinating English-language debut chronicles a 20-something woman grappling with intergenerational trauma in 2010s France...Grounded by its protagonist's distinctive, powerful voice, the novel brims with thought-provoking reflections on such weighty subjects as the passage of time and the politics of history and memory ('We made the victims into a cluster of numbers, and then we turned the executioners into a tangle of myths,' Alma notes about the Holocaust). Slim but impactful, this is a must-read." -Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

"A walk through Paris in the early hours of the morning reveals the rich, complex interiority of Finkelstein's protagonist...Alma is tormented by the Holocaust; she's obsessed with technology, Coke and Pepsi, and Daft Punk's 'One More Time.' She's somewhere between 'twenty and twenty-five years old,' an insomniac, and alone in Paris. As night bleeds into morning, she wanders the empty streets, ruminating upon the life of her grandfather-a Polish Holocaust survivor-as well as her own childhood ... A brilliant, peculiar confrontation with genealogy and inheritance." -Kirkus Reviews