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The Clean Daughter|Jill Kandel

The Clean Daughter : A Cross-Continental Memoir

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Overview

When Jill Kandel married Johan, a man from the Netherlands, she never imagined the influence her father-in-law, Izaak, would hold over her life. Beneath his calm demeanor and clerical garb, Izaak carried the wounds of growing up in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Childhood chaos led him to become a man who had all the answers. For everyone. Except himself. Izaak ended his own life--while still a healthy man--using legalized euthanasia in the Netherlands. The long tumultuous relationship between daughter-in-law and father-in-law was over. But Kandel couldn't move on. Ten years later, still exhausted by thoughts of Izaak, she returned to the Netherlands to search for understanding. The Clean Daughter is a story about building family across cultural, linguistic, and geographical divides. The complicated ways families both destroy and heal one another underpin Kandel's story of a family held together by tenacity, curiosity, and courage.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781946163301
  • ISBN-10: 1946163309
  • Publisher: North Dakota State University Press
  • Publish Date: May 2022
  • Dimensions: 9.13 x 6.22 x 1.18 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.32 pounds
  • Page Count: 360

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