Exile Music explores an untold bit of World War II history, following a family of Austrian Jewish musicians who flee the Nazis in 1939 to find refuge in the Bolivian Andes. Orly and her parents reimagine their entire lives, using music and poetry to find a way through loss. Orly’s mother also embarks on a new venture that puts their family at risk again. It won the Grand Prize in the Eyelands Book Awards and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Lesbian Fiction Award, the Bisexual Book Award, and the Annie Award.
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