The Trunk Trilogy
Book One: Seeking A Common Thread:
A Novel Based on a True Holocaust Story
Book Description
Seeking a Common Thread, Book One of the Trunk Trilogy, is a coming-of-age novel that takes the reader back and forth in time from Vienna of the 1920s and 1930s, where we meet Lusia Spielvogel, to Connecticut in 1972, where we meet Susan, a fifteen-year-old teenager. All her life, Susan had wondered what was inside the trunk that had always stood in the corner of her family's dining room. Susan's father, Samuel, is secretive and never speaks of the relatives he lost in the Holocaust. There has been a break in the strand of family, and Susan feels no connection to those relatives who were lost. Samuel and his immediate family lived in Vienna and remained there for a year after the Anschluss. He was able to go to Ireland through the sponsorship of a Righteous Gentile named Florence Hobson. His Tante Lusia and Onkel Jakob were not as lucky. They had packed away a trunk filled with their possessions in anticipation of a future life, a future that was never to be. Once the family opens up the trunk to reveal its contents, Susan tries to get to know the mysterious "woman of the trunk" through her possessions. Susan discovers a halfway completed tablecloth among the items in the trunk. A project started, never to be completed by its original owner. The narrative of Seeking a Common Thread interweaves Lusia's story with Susan's completion of the unfinished tablecloth and how, through the act of embroidery to complete the project, Susan discovers Tante Lusia's story and in turn discovers herself and a connection to family.
Photo Gallery
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Prologue
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Click on the picture of the trunk to read the Prologue Hidden In Plain Sight of Book One: Seeking A Common Thread.
