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The Length of a String by Elissa Brent Weissman tells the interwoven stories of Imani, a Black Jewish girl searching for her birth parents for her bat mitzvah, and her great-grandmother Anna, a Jewish girl who fled Nazi-occupied Luxembourg alone in 1941, as revealed through Anna's diary. As Imani reads Anna's historical account of escaping to America and building a new life, she gains a deeper understanding of family, identity, loss, and resilience, bridging the gap between her own adoption story and her ancestor's harrowing journey, ultimately finding new connections to her past and present.
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