{"product_id":"your-eyes-will-be-my-window-essays-paperback","title":"Your Eyes Will Be My Window: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJodi Varon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYour Eyes Will Be My Window\u003c\/i\u003e reclaims the two erasures of Esta Plat. Murdered in Ukraine by Nazi troops in 1942, evidence of the life of Esta Plat was preserved in a bundle of her letters until the letters were tossed into a dumpster and destroyed. Haunted by the inheritance of survivor's guilt and shame in a family that kept no Old World keepsakes except her grandmother's one-sentence memory of Esta Plat, Jodi Varonis compelled to sift through records of Europe's genocidal past. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePitting grandiose Holocaust memorials against the act of bearing witness, Varon confronts the limitations of history, folklore, archival data, and survivor testimonies. Seeking solace in ritual, she challenges her upbringing as an outlier Jew in the Rocky Mountain West to provide a window to the meaning of cultural displacement in immigrant communities. When an ethnic German woman's corpse was discarded across from Varon's rented flat in Baden-Württemberg, the homemade memorial for Nadine E. prompts a meditation on violence against women and girls as a weapon of suppression and war. The record of unfiltered emotions among Kindertransport survivors in Europe, journalists in Ludwigsburg, and archivists and guides in Jerusalem, \u003ci\u003eYour Eyes Will Be My Window\u003c\/i\u003e is a defiant exercise in honoring the lost.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJODI VARON is professor of writing and English at Eastern Oregon University. She directs the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing at EOU and is editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003ebasalt\u003c\/i\u003e, EOU's professional literary magazine. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDrawing to an Inside Straight: The Legacy of an Absent Father\u003c\/i\u003e and has had her work published in \u003ci\u003eThe Northwest Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eOregon Encyclopedia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Letters\u003c\/i\u003e, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.18 x 8.35 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51774299504928,"sku":"9780820364667","price":25.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/28fddf36b37fd9254e966b9266e12305.webp?v=1780445539","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/your-eyes-will-be-my-window-essays-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}