City Libraries, City of Gold Coast

I'll keep you close, by Jeska Verstegen ; translated by Bill Nagelkerke

eng

no index present

fiction

I'll keep you close

by Jeska Verstegen ; translated by Bill Nagelkerke

Jeska doesn't know why her mother keeps the curtains drawn so tightly every day. And what exactly is she trying to drown out when she floods the house with Mozart? What are they hiding from? When Jeska's grandmother accidentally calls her by a stranger's name, she seizes her first clue to uncovering her family's past, and hopefully to all that's gone unsaid. With the help of an old family photo album, her father's encyclopedia collection and the unquestioning friendship of a stray cat, the silence begins to melt into frightening clarity: Jeska's family survived a terror that they've worked hard to keep secret all her life. And somehow, it has both nothing and everything to do with her, all at once

juvenile

I will keep you close