Margot/Jillian Cantor/338 pgs.

Imagine Anne Frank's sister, Margot, survived the Holocaust, moved to the United States, and assumed a new identity. That is the premise for Jillian Cantor's Margot. Margot Frank, now known as Margie Franklin, has been living in Philadelphia, working as a secretary for the law firm of Rosenstein, Greenberg and Moscowitz. Her boss is Joshua Rosenstein, the son of Ezra Rosenstein. The year is 1959, and movie, The Diary of Anne Frank, has just been released. No one knows that Margie Franklin is Jewish, let alone the sister of Anne Frank. The book is told through Margie's voice, and depicts her struggles with survivor's guilt, shame, all the while trying to make a new life in a new country. On the one hand, Margie wants to forget her past, but on the other hand, she realizes that her past helped shape her present. It's a very engrossing book, but the ending was just a little too "pat" for me.