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Black and white image of a girl looking at the viewer. A hole appears to be burned in the image creating a white space with the title "Kiss the Red Stairs" in black at the top, the subtitle "The Holocaust, Once Removed" in red in the middle, and the author's name "Marsha Lederman" in black at the bottom.

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Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

Cover of “Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed” by Marsha Lederman, 2023 Heritage Toronto Book Award nominee. Cover design by Talia Abramson.

Cover of “Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed” by Marsha Lederman, 2023 Heritage Toronto Book Award nominee. Cover design by Talia Abramson.

Author: Marsha Lederman

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Random House Canada

Marsha was five when a simple question led to a horrifying answer. Sitting in her kitchen, she asked her mother why she didn’t have any grandparents. Her mother told her the truth: the Holocaust.

Decades later, her parents dead and herself a mother to a young son, Marsha begins to wonder how much history has shaped her own life. Reeling in the wake of a divorce, she craves her parents’ help. But in their absence, she is gripped by a need to understand the trauma they suffered, and she begins her own journey into the past to tell her family’s stories of loss and resilience.

Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir of Holocaust survival, intergenerational trauma, divorce, and discovery that will guide readers through several lifetimes of monumental change.

About the Author:

Mar­sha Led­er­man is the author of the acclaimed nation­al best­selling mem­oir Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holo­caust, Once Removed and a colum­nist for The Globe and Mail. An award-win­ning jour­nal­ist, Mar­sha was pre­vi­ous­ly The Globe’s West­ern Arts Cor­re­spon­dent. Before that, she worked for CBC Radio and in com­mer­cial radio. Born and raised in Toron­to, Ontario, she now lives in Van­cou­ver, Britsh Columbia.

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