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In attempting to bring a suspected war criminal to justice a lawyer wrestles with power accountability and her Jewish identity
In a quiet forest in Belarus two boys stumble across a longkept secret the mass grave where Stalins police secretly murdered thousands in the 1930s The results of the subsequent investigation have farreaching effects and across the Atlantic in Toronto Leah Jarvis a lively curious young lawyer finds herself tasked with an impossible case the deportation of elderly Stefan Drozd who fled his crimes in Kurapaty for a new identity in Canada Leah is convinced of Drozds guilt but she needs hard facts She travels to Belarus in search of witnesses only to find herself asking increasingly complex questions What is the relationship between chance inheritance and justice Between her own historyher mothers death her fathers absence the shadows of her Jewish heritageand the challenges that now confront her
Beautiful and wrenching by turns The Singing Forest is a profound investigation of truth and memoryand the moving story of one mans past and one womans determination to reckon with it
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