One Jewish family, split across two continents — hunted in America, then hunted in Europe.
It begins with a blood libel in a small New York town in 1928 and follows the Schatzman family across four decades and an ocean — through Weimar Berlin, Mussolini’s Italy, and the rise of the Third Reich. Four books, one family, and every enemy the century could throw at them.
Four books. One family saga, from the New World to the old one’s darkest hour.
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The story
In 1928, a little girl goes missing in a small upstate New York town, and an ancient poison rises with her: the blood libel. The town turns on the Schatzmans, and a family that came to America for safety learns there is nowhere the hatred cannot follow.
From there the saga widens — to the artists and excess of Weimar Berlin, to Mussolini’s Italy, to a Manhattan of bootleggers and old enemies, and at last to a Germany where staying has become a death sentence. Across four books the Schatzman and Birnbaum families are tested by prejudice, ambition, love, and the gathering war. Read in order, start to finish.
The saga
Not In America
Upstate New York, 1928. When four-year-old Evelyn Wilson goes missing, an ancient slander — the blood libel — claws to the surface, and the town’s fear turns on the Schatzman family. Their young son is accused of unspeakable crimes, and the life they built in America begins to come apart. They came for safety, and found the same hatred they had fled.
They Never Saw It Coming
Berlin, in the wild years of Weimar. Goldie Schatzman, nearing forty, returns home and is swept by her old friend Leni into a world of artists, freedom, and excess — abandoning the dutiful life she once knew. But as her daughter Alma comes of age and the family looks to arrange her future, forces none of them can see are already gathering beneath the glittering surface.
When The Dust Settled
The world races toward war and the Schatzmans are divided. In New York, prohibition has ended and Sam’s livelihood running liquor for the Jewish mob collapses — the new jobs on offer cross lines he swore he never would. Across the ocean, Mussolini rules Italy with an iron fist, and those who speak against him vanish. The family’s two worlds are drifting toward the same storm.
The Syndrome That Saved Us
The saga’s reckoning. In Manhattan, an old enemy from the KKK returns to Sam’s life, and he must choose whether to rise above his hatred or be consumed by it. In Berlin, Esther and Ted Birnbaum face leaving everything behind to survive Hitler’s Germany — but where can they go, and who will help them get out? Everything the family has built comes down to the choices they make now.
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