Mieke Eerkens: All Ships Follow Me
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Sun March 31, 2019, 3 pm
Elliott Bay Book Company
Capitol Hill (Seattle)
Free
Mieke Eerkens delves into her parents' heartbreaking childhoods during WWII. In the Dutch East Indies, her father, 10, was interned in a Japanese hard labor camp for three years before being released in the midst of a civil war. In Holland, Eerkens's mother, seven, was left in the streets when her Nazi-sympathizing parents were taken to prison. The book shows how these traumas overshadow the younger generations.