Elizabeth Rosner’s Blue Nude takes modern history’s greatest atrocity and expresses its consequences—and a hope for redemption—in the lives of two people thrown together by accident. Bringing together the past and present lives of Merav, an Israeli model, and Danzig, a German artist, Blue Nude becomes the literary equivalent of a great work of visual art: elegantly composed, vivid, a perfect object as well as a great and stirring drama. Every family has a story. Every story, eventually, must be told. For most of their lives, Julian Perel and his sister, Paula, lived in a house cast in silence, witnesses to a father struggling with a devastating secret too painful to share. Though their father took his demons to the grave, his past refuses to rest. Gravity is a 50-page poetry collection that can be read as an autobiographical companion to both of Rosner's novels. These prize-winning poems offer insight into the author's background and reveal many of the inspirations for The Speed of Light as well as Blue Nude.