Every family has a story.
About the Author: Elizabeth Rosner is a graduate of Stanford University and received a master of fine arts i.
From the Hardcover edition.
In an extraordinary accomplishment, Elizabeth Rosner has created a novel of love and redemption that proves the pain of the untold story is far greater than even the most difficult truth.
The Speed of Light is a powerful debut about three unforgettable souls who overcome the tragedies of the past to reconnect with one another and the world around them.
As Paula uncovers pieces of her father\'s early life in Budapest and the horrifying truth of his past, Julian bears witness to Sola\'s story--revelations that help all three learn how to both surrender and revere the shadows that have followed them for so long.
Flat and quiet.
I want to clean myself like the window of a house, make myself clear for things to pass through.
Yet Sola, too, has a story.
Before embarking on a European opera tour, Paula asks her housekeeper, Sola, to stay at her place--and to look after Julian in the apartment above.
Yet both their lives begin to change on a Wednesday, miercoles, the day that sounds like miracles. . . .
I tried to give him joy.
I filled the house with music.
Singing was the only gift I could offer to my father.
An aspiring opera singer, she is always moving, buoyant with sound.
In contrast, Paula has entered the world as eagerly as Julian retracts from it.
It was mine now.
But he carried his sadness with him, under his skin.
My father gave up his language and his homeland.
A scientist governed by numbers and logic, Julian now lives an ordered life of routine and seclusion.
As adults, brother and sister struggle to find their voices.
Though their father took his demons to the grave, his past refuses to rest.
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.
Every story, eventually, must be told.
Every family has a story
