3GNY Book Release and Author Talk with 3G Brooke Randel
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 | 8:00pm ET | On Zoom

Join us for an intimate discussion with 3GNY volunteer Brooke Randel to celebrate the release of her new memoir, Also Here: Love, Literacy, and the Legacy of the Holocaust.

About Also Here

As a young girl Brooke Randel knew little about the Holocaust—just that it was a catastrophe in which millions were murdered, and that her grandma Golda Indig barely escaped that fate. But her Bubbie never spoke about what happened, and the two spent most of their time together making pleasant memories: baking crescent roll cookies, playing gin rummy, and watching Baywatch. Until an unexpected phone call when Golda said, out of the blue: “You should write about my life. What happened in the war.” What results is a fascinating memoir—about one woman's harrowing survival, and another's struggle to excavate the story from under the sands of time, and her grandma's illiteracy. Chronicling the darkness of the past and the difficult (and occasionally comic) challenges of bringing it to life in a sunny Florida condo, this book offers an insightful look into the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, and the impossible pull of both silence and remembrance.

Purchase the book at: https://bookshop.org/a/106294/9781948954976

About Brooke

Brooke Randel is a writer, editor and associate creative director in Chicago. She is the author of Also Here: Love, Literacy, and the Legacy of the Holocaust. Her writing has been published in Hippocampus, Hypertext Magazine, Jewish Fiction, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. The granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, she writes on issues of memory, trauma, family and history. Find more of her work at brookerandel.com.

3G Author Brooke Randel Also Here by Brooke Randel

3GNY Book Release and Author Talk with 3G Brooke Randel

Join us for an intimate discussion with 3GNY volunteer Brooke Randel to celebrate the release of her new memoir, Also Here: Love, Literacy, and the Legacy of the Holocaust.