Margot / Jillian Cantor / 338 pgs.

This thoughtful story imagines a history where Margot, the sister of Anne Frank, does not die during the Holocaust, but manages to escape and establish a life in Philadelphia, PA.  She  finds work as a law secretary and assumes the identity of "Margie Franklin" in part to attempt to leave behind the painful memories of the war and to escape the stigma of

being a Jew. Margot's past and Margie's carefully constructed present begins to collide when the Jewish law firm where she is employed takes on the case of a Holocaust survivor.  That coupled with the release of the movie version of the popular book The Diary of a Young Girl unleashes emotions of survivors guilt coupled with fear, attempts to reclaim lost love, and budding feelings of new romantic love.