"Heirlooms is a fascinating series of interconnected stories about members of an extended family of Jews before, during and long after the Holocaust, in France, in Israel, in the United States. Different women and men define themselves in resistance, denial and ignorance of history through four generations . . . In some ways the entire book is a meditation on the meaning of family and history."
—Marge Piercy, author of Sex Wars: A Novel of Gilded-Age New York and Three Women
"Heirlooms is a masterful collection, infused with devastating beauty. Focusing her precise artistry on the chaos of war, Rachel Hall succeeds in animating loss, preserving memory, and adding powerful imaginative truth to the historical record."
—Joanna Scott, author of De Potter’s Grand Tour
"Heirlooms is an exquisite and thrilling collection. In fearless and incandescent prose, Rachel Hall traces the fragile resilience and quiet horrors of those displaced by war. She happens to be writing about the Second World War, but these are stories that speak to the essential human experiences of exile and loss and survival. Heirlooms captures what it is to be a refugee, and an immigrant, with a delicacy and precision that delights and haunts."
—Steve Almond, author of God Bless America and The Evil B. B. Chow & Other Stories