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""A well-crafted tale about trauma and miracles."" -Kirkus Reviews Nicky Covo is a Holocaust survivor. In 1990, Nicky - a Brooklyn psychiatrist - receives a letter from Abbess Fevronia, the head of a women's monastery in Greece. Although Nicky believes the rest of his family died at Auschwitz, he learns that Theodora, a mysteriously silent nun who's lived at the monastery since 1944, may be his baby sister, Kal. With his old friend and new love, Helen, Nicky returns to Greece - to harrowing memories of his fighting with the partisans and to a reunion with his beloved sister. The Flight of the Veil explores the intersections of guilt and memory, faith and tragedy, fate and miracle.

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The text skirts between fantastic realism, real realism, and a protagonist who has not taught himself how to go entirely insane... -Carolivia Herron, author of Thereafter Johnnie

Illumination Book Awards - Bronze Award As seen in Moment Magazine In the intelligent historical novel The Flight of the Veil, a psychiatrist returns to places that were treacherous in his childhood, reconciling internal contradictions. -Clarion Reviews Berger has created a compelling Everyman who must wrestle with grand theological questions: In times of great calamity, why does God save only some? -Stephanie Grant, author of Map of Ireland and The Passion of Alice The text skirts between fantastic realism, real realism, and a protagonist who has not taught himself how to go entirely insane... -Carolivia Herron, author of Thereafter Johnnie Author Bruce J. Berger has penned an unforgettable novel in The Flight of the Veil. It is truly an exceptional book! -Readers' Favorite

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Following a legal career of 40 years, Bruce J. Berger received his MFA in Creative Writing from American University in Washington, DC. His short stories - including two based upon this novel - have been published in a variety of literary magazines, including Prole, Wilderness House Literary Review, Jersey Devil, Buck Off Magazine, A-Minor Magazine, The Raven's Perch, and Scarlet Leaf. He now teaches at American University.

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