The empty chair - Claudia Yelin

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• THE EMPTY CHAIR--SYNOPSIS Claudia Yelin In the midst of a ruthless dictatorship in Argentina, during which thousands of people are brutally killed or disappeared, the Khun family emigrates to the United States.
• Uncle Hugo Khun, still so very young, is among the desaparecidos.
• Years later, Doctor Pablo Khun--father, husband, and older brother of Hugo--receives a phone call at his office.
• There will be a trial in Argentina regarding his brother's kidnapping.
• In a haze, Pablo goes home and tries to rest on the couch, but he can't: he's been avoiding even the mention of his brother since the family fled.
• That night, the Khun family (Pablo, his wife, Laura, and their three children: Camila, Dora, and Dani) are forced to confront why they left Argentina.
• Yet the family meeting does not go well: Pablo's mute.
• Laura stumbles over her explanation.
• Dani, age seven, storms out with Camila, sixteen, on his heels.
• And Dora the middle-schooler, who's already struggling to adjust to the United States, can't understand how her parents lied to her for years.