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January, 2010: The White Space Between VOTED NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BELLETRISTA, CELEBRATING WOMEN WRITERS AROUND THE WORLD
 This moving story offers the reader a promise of hope, a bridge between the past and the present, a story of family and love and finding a voice.
The author's lightness of touch renders [The White Space Between] a story of hope; the pain of the past is remade into a force for change... That's the beauty of this novel... deeply powerful.
Brodoff's prose bears an affinity to the work of Margaret Laurence in her exploration of the mother-daughter relationship. Brodoff, who has published a previous novel and collection of short stories, is a writer worth watching.
Radio Canada International Interview with Ami on The White Space Between: January 1, 2009.
To listen to the Interview (8.7 MB) CLICK HERE Ami talks with Clelia of Open Book about her new novel, her inspirations and what's next.
“In The White Space Between, Brodoff allows art to speak the unspeakable…she weaves myth and reality…in a powerful act of imagination. Those silent places often affect us most deeply. (The) senses are stirred on many levels.” “You could say this is a novel about the Holocaust. You could say this is a story about secrets and the past, control and acceptance, love and emptiness. And The White Space Between is all these things, but, above all else, Ami Sands Brodoff has crafted a tale of ancestry and the familial bond. The relationship Willow has with her puppets is beautiful, and one of the greatest strengths of the novel.“ Read the full review here “The White Space Between, a new book by Montreal author Ami Sands Brodoff explores a
mother's difficulty coping with memories of the Holocaust, and the effect her suffering has on
her daughter. A presentation by Brodoff at Cegep Champlain St. Lawrence last Thursday
provided an opportunity to speak with the author, students and staff about an event in history that
is seemingly fading from the collective memory.“
For Brodoff, it was her late mother-in-law Brana Hochova's cassette recordings - recollections of stories from Terezin, Mauthausen and Buchenwald concentration camps - that inspired her to write The White Space Between.
“The novel examines the way that we create our identities from the stories we tell about our past, and questions the point at which the truth pushes its way out from the safe haven of denial. The structure of the narrative is well-paced and simmers gradually to a full boil.“ -Quill & Quire PRAISE FOR THE WHITE SPACE BETWEEN "The White Space Between beautifully evokes one family's history and resilience, as it traces the mix of curiosity and self-protection that lead a mother and daughter into the past. The puppeteer heroine and her staunch and wry mother are wonderful, indelible characters, in a novel with a rare sunniness at its heart."
"The White Space Between portrays the fascinating struggle between forgetting and uncovering stunningly powerful and necessary memories, an extraordinary hide-and-seek game of personal and ethnic history. The novel abounds with wisdom and lyrical beauty."
"Ami Sands Brodoff powerfully explores the haunted terrain of memory. Brave in its disclosure of family truths, her latest novel centers on a mother struggling to bury history, while her daughter yearns to uncover it, a journey rich with secrets and reckonings. Brodoff renders this world-a Montreal of eternal snow, a Prague of eternal childhood-as beautifully as a cherished old photograph, once lost, now found."
"The White Space Between forms a crystalline menorah in one's mind. With meticulous power, Brodoff evinces from the ash and soil of the Holocaust, the transcendent flame of hope, timelessness, and truth. A deeply moving and memorable novel."
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