Margot (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781594486432)

"Inventive . . . Cantor's 'what-if' story combines historical fiction with mounting suspense and romance, but above all, it is an ode to the adoration and competition between sisters." --O, the Oprah Magazine

A story of sisters that imagines Anne Frank's sister Margot survived World War II and was living in America, from the author of The Lost Letter and The Hours Count

Anne Frank has long been a symbol of bravery and hope, but there were two sisters hidden in the annex, two young Jewish girls, one a cultural icon made famous by her published diary and the other, nearly forgotten.

In the spring of 1959, The Diary of Anne Frank has just come to the silver screen to great acclaim, and a young woman named Margie Franklin is working in Philadelphia as a secretary at a Jewish law firm. On the surface she lives a quiet life, but Margie has a secret: a life she once lived, a past and a religion she has denied, and a family and a country she left behind.

Margie Franklin is really Margot Frank, older sister of Anne, who did not die in Bergen-Belsen as reported, but who instead escaped the Nazis for America. But now, as her sister becomes a global icon, Margie's carefully constructed American life begins to fall apart. A new relationship threatens to overtake the young love that sustained her during the war, and her past and present begin to collide. Margie is forced to come to terms with Margot, with the people she loved, and with a life swept up into the course of history.

Author: Jillian Cantor
ISBN-10: 1594486433
ISBN-13: 9781594486432
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Language: English
Published: 09/03/2013
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2013 pg. 76
Publishers Weekly 07/22/2013
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2013
Booklist 08/01/2013 pg. 46
People Weekly 09/16/2013 pg. 51
Shelf Awareness 09/10/2013
New York Times Book Review 11/03/2013 pg. 30