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A complicated patrimony in ‘Endpapers’ Unearthing family history, finding unsettling truths By Shuchi Saraswat Globe Correspondent,Updated February 25, 2021, 1:51 p.m. Email to a Friend OSWALD KUNSTMANN/okunsto - stock.adobe.com The child of an immigrant often bears witness to startling moments of intercedence, where their parent’s long-buried past suddenly ruptures the present. Alexander Wolff knows these occurrences; he writes of them in “Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home.” His father, a German émigré living in the U.S., withheld much of his German life from his children. But every now and then, while listening to Schubert or observing a slant of light, Wolff would notice a memory play out on his father’s face. “I’ve come to believe that each of these moments thrived in a kind of emotional negative space,” Wolff writes. “The more beautiful the sensation at hand, the more starkly it threw the off-set

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