Loss, trauma, memory, and, above all, the ties of family and being Jewish are the elements that weave together this panoramic story. Come Back for Me travels through time and place only to bring us, ultimately, to the connections between generations. Artur Mandelkorn is a young Hungarian Holocaust survivor whose desperate quest to find his sister takes him to post-war Israel. Intersecting Artur's tale is that of Suzy Kohn, a Toronto teenager whose seemingly tranquil life is shattered when her uncle's sudden death tears her family apart. Their stories eventually come together in Israel following the Six-Day War, where love and understanding become the threads that bind the two narratives together. Like Sarah's Key, Come Back for Me deals evocatively with the scars left by tragedy and the possibilities for healing. "Evocative and heart-wrenchingly beautiful, Come Back for Me is a must read for anyone with a moral conscience and a soul." -- Leah Kaminsky, winner of the Voss Literary Prize for her debut novel, The Waiting Room "Writing with an historian's luminous clarity and a fictionist's hard-won freedom to imagine the past, Sharon Hart-Green takes the modern Jewish novel to new heights . Come Back for Me both captivates and rewards the reader." -- Maxim D. Shrayer, author of Yom Kippur in Amsterdam "This wonderful debut novel, with great sensitivity and tenderness, captures the emotional contours of loss and renewal that haunts the post-Holocaust universe. And even with all the grief that comes from such tales of lives ruptured and recaptured, Hart-Green's novel is a joy to read. We will no doubt see more books from her." --Thane Rosenbaum, author of The Golems of Gotham, Second Hand Smoke and Elijah Visible "With tenderness and clarity, Sharon Hart-Green's novel tells the story of how one generation transforms inherited trauma into a hopeful future....a lovely debut." --Amy Gottlieb, author of The Beautiful Possible "Come Back for Me is both the lovely coming of age story of a young woman in 1960's Toronto and a darkly shadowed tale of a scarred Jewish family that wends its way from the Nazi occupation of Hungary through Mandate Palestine, England and Israel. Beyond its riveting plot it is a novel about the loss and recovery of love. Sharon Hart-Green writes with great generosity of heart and a searing sense of what it means to be buffeted by history." --Jonathan Wilson, author of A Palestine Affair "In Come Back for Me , Hart-Green explores the trauma and loss of one extended family as it clashes with life's insistence upon being lived. Heartfelt and rich in detail, the story [is] unflinching in its portrayal of devastation and renewal... an impressive, ambitious, and highly readable debut." -- Joseph Skibell, author of A Blessing on the Moon and A Curable Romantic "Sharon Hart-Green writes passionately and intelligently about trauma, history and the true meaning of home. This novel is poignant and compassionate, vividly evoked and deeply satisfying. " --Molly Antopol, author of The Unamericans "... a deeply affecting novel that explores unbearable loss and the possibility of starting again." --TovaMirvis, author of Visible City and The Ladies Auxiliary "A gripping tale told from a place in the heart that isboth broken and alive. Anyone who has ever lost something precious andhuman will follow Artur on his heartbreaking and hopeful journey." --Ruchama King Feuerman, author of In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist and Seven Blessings "Writing with a historian's luminous clarity and a fictionist's hard-won freedom to imagine the past, Sharon Hart-Green takes the modern Jewish novel to new heights. Come Back for Me both captivates and rewards the reader." - Maxim D. Shrayer, author of Yom Kippur in Amsterdam and professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College Sharon Hart-Green received her PhD in Judaic Studies from Brandeis University and has taught Hebrew and Yiddish literature at the University of Toronto. She is the author of two scholarly works, Not A Simple Story , a study of the work of Hebrew novelist S. Y. Agnon, and Bridging the Divide , a compilation of her translations of the Hebrew poems of HavaPinhas-Cohen. Her short stories, poems, translations, and reviews have appeared in a number of publications including The Jewish Quarterly and  The Jewish Review of Books . Come Back for Me  is her first novel.