THE PIECES WE KEEP

 Kristina McMorris. THE PIECES WE KEEP. Kensington, 2013.

March book club selection. Again, two separate stories, WW II and 2012?, but they do intersect. One theme, what is "blood memory"? How much of the past lives of our ancestors to we experience, through our dreams or though our dreams?  Vivian, an ambassador's daughter, meets Isaac in London. A German. Shares some facts with him. Later, he follows her back to New York, as part of a group of German spies. Their child and grandchild explore the story 60+ years later. 

My one hesitation: a seven-year-old boy takes a book from the school library, vandalizes the book by cutting out pictures that he somehow sees as being linked to his life. Nazi images, and an electric chair. The mother dismisses the non-scientific explanation. 

I did enjoy reading it.