Book of the Week: HELD by Anne Michaels

In our evocatively written Book of the Week, HELD by Anne Michaels (the author of Fugitive Pieces), the past irrupts into the present in ways that are generally but not always unwelcome, shunting the lives of its characters down paths that they had scarcely anticipated. How does this affect not only themselves but those around them, and those descended or who will descend from them? To what extent does memory keep us alive, and to what extent does it prevent us from healing? Can love hold us safe across generations?

• Anne Michaels on writing the book.

• Closer than we imagine.

• Nothing enrages a tyrant more than hope.

• Humanity’s relationship with invisibility.

• One story across time.

• Fugitive Pieces.