This Strange Eventful History that is often the key

that is often the key to survival

that flicker at the border of that world

Here I Am is Foer's most searching

" -- Anthony Burgess

This Strange Eventful History that is often the keyOver seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This Strange Eventful History, told with historical sweep, is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of Franois and