The Family

“Laskin’s chronicle could have been written in tears,” said Edward Kosner in his Wall Street Journal review of The Family. “It is at once anguishing and inspiring.” The Family tells the story of the three branches of Laskin’s mother’s family:  one branch immigrated to the United States at the turn of the last century and founded the fabulous Maidenform Bra Company; one branch relocated to what was Palestine as idealistic Zionist pioneers; the third branch remained in Eastern Europe perished in the Holocaust.  Widely praised for it harrowing veracity and powerful prose, The Family was named a best book of the year by Kirkus, the Seattle Times, the Oregonian and the New York Public Library, and it won the Washington State Book Award in biography/memoir.