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It is time to be brave and visible, to love and be loved - and time perhaps to become a hero as the stain of anti-Semitism spreads across Europe.

About the Author

Goldie Goldbloom grew up in Western Australia. She has received many national and international awards for her fiction and her nonfiction, and is author of The Paperbark Shoe and You Lose These and Other Stories. One of her stories was selected for inclusion in the Best Australian Short Stories of 2015. The National Endowment for the Arts (USA), and the Brown Foundation Fellows Program, Dora Maar House in MUnerbes (France), amongst others, have honoured her with fellowships. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Chicago and the mother of eight children.