Who We Are Now: On Ellen Ullman’s By Blood

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Rather than create simple works of historical fiction, fashioning narratives set solely in war-ravaged Europe, Ullman, like Chabon and Foer, has ushered in a fecund new phase of Holocaust fiction. It is not only necessary that we try to recapture the morally-starved world of the actual Holocaust, but that we take up the question of how much that bleak history should define our present-day lives.
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