Inthis collection, isoneof the best booksabout the Holocaust,includesthe story "TheShawl," heincludedin manyanthologies,and the novel"The Rose" which was publishedafter thestory.In the "Shawls"heroine of the story-in a concentration camp,in the story "Rose,"she is, she managed tosurvive- inprosperous America, buther life was stilldefinethe horrorsof the past.Time does notalwaysheal, not allwounds, andnot allare tightened.Onlythirtyyears later,on the threshold ofold age,Rosewill be able toovercometheir grief.