A Guggenheim fellow, Terese Svoboda is the author of 20 books. She has won the Bobst Prize in fiction, the Iowa Prize for poetry, an NEH grant for translation, the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, a Jerome Foundation prize for video, the O. Henry award for the short story, and a Pushcart Prize for the essay. She is a three time winner of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and has been awarded Headlands, James Merrill, Hawthornden, Hermitage, Yaddo, MacDowell, Rowland, VCCA, Bogliasco, and Bellagio residencies. Her opera WET premiered at L.A.'s Disney Hall.

"What a bold, vibrant, and intensely original book this is."
--Joan Silber, author of Mercy

"Wit, imagination, and marked acumen about our on-going preoccupation with censorship, witch hunts, and truth-telling vs. fakery makes this provocative memoir a highly engaging read."
--Carolyn Burke, author of Lee Miller

"Highly researched, intimate, and always engaging, Svoboda's memoir teaches us to appreciate both 'the contours of what you don't know' and, more than that, 'the mysteries.'"
--Jehanne Dubrow, author of Civilians and Exhibitions: Essays on Art & Atrocity

"Canny, meandering, and revelatory, it's a remarkable family memoir that stretches across major developments of the 20th century while questioning how the truth gets produced. Readers will be riveted."
--Publishers Weekly

"A sharp, unsettling memoir that begins with a family legend and expands into looted art, Cold War secrets, and the lives women aren't allowed to tell. Terese Svoboda writes with wit, rigor, and emotional bite. I read it as a journalist and daughter-in-law -- and couldn't look away."
--Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of The Aviator and the Showman

"A breathtakingly broad look at the history and significance of war and restitution, art and ownership, family and responsibility, truth and memory."
--Carolyn Edy, author of The Woman Correspondent, the U.S. Military, and the Press, 1846-1947

"Meticulously researched and thoughtful when looking at the past. This is Svoboda at the height of her power as a writer."
--Electric Literature

PRAISE FOR TERESE SVOBODA:

"One of our best writers."
--Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! and Sleep Donation

"One of the writers you would be tempted to read regardless of the setting of the period or the plot or even the genre."
--Bloomsbury Review

"A true original."
--Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel

PRAISE FOR TERESE SVOBODA'S PREVIOUS WORKS:

"Svoboda's prose is...stuffed to the brim -- with invention, surprise and the sweaty mystery of whom we get tangled up with, and why."
--New York Times

"Exquisite....[Svoboda] crafts singular depictions of her characters' inner worlds."
--Publishers Weekly