In 1939, the families in a remote Jewish village in Romania
feel the war close in on them. Their tribe has moved and escaped for thousands
of years, across oceans, deserts, and mountains, but now, it seems, there is
nowhere else to go. Danger is imminent in every direction, yet the territory of
imagination and belief is limitless. At the suggestion of an eleven year old
girl and a mysterious stranger who has washed up on the riverbank, the
villagers decide to reinvent the world: deny any relationship with the known
and start over from scratch. Destiny is unwritten. Time and history are
forgotten. Jobs, husbands, a child, are reassigned. And for years, there is
boundless hope.
But the real world continues to unfold alongside the imagined
one, eventually overtaking it, and soon our narrator, the girl, grown into a
young mother, must flee her village, move from one world to the next, to find
her husband and save her children, and propel them toward a real and hopeful
future.
A beguiling, imaginative, inspiring story about the bigness of being
alive as an individual, as a member of a tribe, and as a participant in
history, No One is Here Except All Of Us explores how we use
storytelling to survive and shape our own truths.
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"I'm not a fan of WWII stories as a general rule and not usually too excited about fantastical realism but I devoured this book. It was wonderful, capitvating , fascinating and devasting as only WWII can be. Read this - you'll love it."
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Riversue (4 out of 5 stars)