The Canadian Jewish Book Awards were held in Toronto in May.
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Ami Sands Brodoff received the2009 Beatrice and Martin Fischer Award in Fiction for
The White Space Between.
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Ami and fiction juror Cynthia Good,
From Ami’s acceptance speech:
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I wrote The White Space Between in honour of my mother-in-law, Brana Hochova, one of nine children from a Hasidic family in Slatinskidoly, a small town in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in Czechoslovakia. Brana was a survivor of three concentration camps and lost virtually all of her large family in the Shoah. Like many survivors, Brana chose not to speak about her experience during the Holocaust. Yet, after her death, she left behind a little cassette tape just for family in which she finally spoke about her life. I was struck by the power of voices, of stories, how they live on and possess enduring life behind corporeal life.
Though The White Space Between is not literally my mother-in-law’s story, it is written in honour of her, and in honour of our lost family and the millions of families like them.
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I wrote The White Space Between in honour of my mother-in-law, Brana Hochova, one of nine children from a Hasidic family in Slatinskidoly, a small town in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in Czechoslovakia. Brana was a survivor of three concentration camps and lost virtually all of her large family in the Shoah. Like many survivors, Brana chose not to speak about her experience during the Holocaust. Yet, after her death, she left behind a little cassette tape just for family in which she finally spoke about her life. I was struck by the power of voices, of stories, how they live on and possess enduring life behind corporeal life.
Though The White Space Between is not literally my mother-in-law’s story, it is written in honour of her, and in honour of our lost family and the millions of families like them.
Ami and fiction juror Cynthia Good,Director, Creative Book Publishing Program, Humber College
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