The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Elizabeth Rosner of Berkeley wrote her first novel about the secrets such trauma engenders in a family, particularly the temptation to bury the past. The two principal characters in Rosner's novel Blue Nude are descended from Nazi and Jew, and both have been trying without success to forget their pasts when fate brings them together.Merav grew up on a kibbutz in Israel with a mother who had narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Germans. After Merav's lover was killed in a bus bombing, she emigrated to America, trying to escape the violence. She has found herself in San Francisco, working as an artist's model, a trade for which she has a real talent. Merav has had boyfriends and a brief marriage but has been unable to build a lasting relationship with anyone.
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