Contrary to Holocaust literature that focuses on the irredeemable breakdown in the psyche, Fugitive Pieces makes it the central motivating aim to ponder the complex and bewildering experience of healing. The novel features two protagonist narrators-Jacob Beer, a child survivor of the Holocaust, and Ben, a child of Holocaust survivor parents-each acknowledging the moral imperatives to remember the painful past of the Holocaust as well as the need to envision the possibility of coming to terms with the horrors of the past. Abstract This essay draws on critical theories of post-Holocaust testimony and postmemory in conjunction with the emerging sociological concept of “empathetic identification” to investigate the implications of trauma healing in Anne Michaels's Fugitive Pieces.
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