I'd Like to Say Sorry, but There's No One to Say Sorry To

Praise for I'd Like to Say Sorry, but There's No One to Say Sorry To: Grynberg renders the specific and universal messiness of individuals and families trying to connect, avoiding connection, and longing to find some kind of peace in complexity. --Maia Ipp, co-editor of Jewish Currents Mikolaj Grynberg's characters yearn for connection, though the relationships with their family, their people, and their country, are fraught. One of the most brutal of Grynberg's vignettes describes the casual inherited anti-Semitism of children. But what becomes of these children when their parents, late in life, reveal that they are Jewish? How do they make sense of who they are and where they belong in the world? An absolutely gripping, emotionally exhausting book. Highly recommended. --Goldie Goldbloom, author of On Division The incredible vividness of these monologues, the realism, the sadness and the black humor, all combine into an enthralling, multi-faceted story of Jewish and Polish fate. . . . I'll come back to this book, and I'm sorry I can't take any of these stories as fiction. All of it is true. Unfortunately. --Wojciech Szot, Zdaniem Szota It is with a lump in my throat that I read these luminous cameos. Such a range of voices, often revealing for the first time what had been hidden for a lifetime. In Grynberg, psychologist and artist by equal measure, they have found a vessel into which they can pour their hearts. With exquisite clarity, his spare prose lays bare the conundrums with which they have lived and died--as Jews in postwar Poland. --Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews