A Blurb for "House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family" by Ms. Hadley Freeman

                                                                                             

The out of the blue disclosure of her late voguish grandmother's chattels catapults Hadley upon a decade-long pursuit of her family's recondite extraordinary history. A voyage through time brings to life the lives of Sala Glass and her siblings Alex, Jacques, and Henri as they avoid persecution and migrate from Germany to the USA via France.  

Reminiscent of the tormented era of the Second World War, the discovery of the valorous and altruistic lives of her forebears acquaints Hadley to a previously concealed facet of her bloodline. The fragments of an unsettling singular diegesis pieced together from an unbelievably haunting round-the-globe chase from Picasso’s archives in Paris to a covert room in Auvergne to Long Island and to Auschwitz delineate the battle for survival and existence. Through the life of her grandmother Sala, Hadley traverses and raises the still pertinent issues of assimilation, identity, and home.