"Feuerverger's search for a "place of inner solace" is profoundly inspiring ... often rendered in poetically stirring prose. With affecting clarity, the author meditates on the ways in which trauma is transmitted generationally...This is a powerful story, conveyed with deep humanity and insight."

-Kirkus Reviews

"With her parents' survival of the Holocaust a dark shadow in the background, Grace Feuerverger's moving memoir takes us into the sunlight. Her first discovery of crossing the border into another culture - that of French-speaking Canada - leads to a life of more languages, more borders crossed. Her description of how she joyfully introduced that wider world to her students made me wish I had been one of them."

-Adam Hochschild, Historian and Journalist (UC Berkeley) and author of American Midnight

In this profound work of poetic beauty Grace takes us from the minefields of the world's tragic past into the pale beauty of winter light streaming through windows etched in frost. This is a very personal story. The music of its words are filled with wisdom and courage and affection for the broken hearts innocently cast upon the shores we inhabit. We are privileged to share Grace's tears of joy and sadness and are the better and wiser for having done so.

-Roseann O'Reilly Runte, President and CEO of The Canada Foundation for Innovation

"From the very first sentence to the very last this is a wonderfully written memoir. It shows the long shadow cast by the war and how while everyone's experience was essentially the same what really matters is that everyone's experience was essentially different."

-Daniel Finkelstein, Member, House of Lords, UK, and author of Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin and the Miraculous Survival of My Family

"Feuerverger's memoir reminds us that the traumatic legacy of the Holocaust is varied and manifests in deeply personal ways across generations. Her unflinching and vulnerable story reveals truths about pain, self-preservation, and healing."

-Hannah Weisman, Executive Director, Magnes Museum of Jewish Art and Culture, Berkeley CA

"Engrossing and spirited, Grace Feuerverger's memoir captures both the darkness that clings to a child of Holocaust survivors and the light of a fully realized life."

-Paula S. Fass, Professor Emerita (UC Berkeley) and author of Inheriting the Holocaust: A Second Generation Memoir

"This is a heavenly book, enlightened and enlightening, deeply touching and deeply humanizing. It is much, much more than the memoir of the child of Holocaust survivors. In exquisitely descriptive language Winter Light takes you on a journey that opens new doors of understanding for what it means to be human."

-Evelin G. Lindner, Professor, University of Oslo and Director of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Group (Columbia University)

"In Winter Light Grace Feuerverger depicts her bright, passionate younger self becoming a successful scholar, a happy wife, despite and because of her parents, whose lives remain deeply shadowed by the Holocaust. Her vivid writing, full of wit and warmth, makes even the darkest stories a pleasure. This is an eloquent, irresistible memoir."

-Margot Livesey, author of The Road from Belhaven