Grammar of Passage records a German family's quiet lives as they are pulled into the gathering maelstrom of the first half of the Twentieth Century.
But looking back is like a granddaughter staring at a photo of her grandmother; a ] woman she never knew/ whose features and gestures we both share// and whom I, too, never knew .
Omissions in the stories passed down hint at a hidden complicity with the regime, and the lingering legacy of violence in the.
