Holding My Breath: A Novel
by Sidura Ludwig
MARGARET SWEATMAN
Playwright, novelist, author of When Alice Lay Down with Peter
This is a portrait of an era, a city, a family; a story lovingly told by a girl born into Winnipeg's post-War Jewish community. Sidura Ludwig writes from a deeply felt knowledge of this time and place, all the more remarkable because she's too young to know it all first hand. Here are three sisters, three distinct responses to the persuasions of family, seen through the eyes of daughter torn between familial devotion and restless, brilliant ambition. This novel depicts the tremendous capacity for love and the sometimes tragic tendency to hold our loved ones too tight.