What Remains is Hope
Based on a True Story
by Bonnie Suchman
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Pub Date 2 Oct 2025 | Archive Date 29 Sep 2025
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Description
Beginning in 1930s Germany and based on their real lives, four cousins as close as siblings-Bettina, Trudi, Gustav, and Gertrud-share the experiences of the young, including first loves, marriages, and children. Bettina, the oldest, struggles to help her parents with their failing business. Trudi dresses in the latest fashions and tries to make everything look beautiful. Gustav is an artist at heart and hopes to one day open a tailoring shop. Gertrud, the youngest, is forced by her parents to keep secrets, but that doesn't stop her from chasing boys. However, over their seemingly ordinary lives hangs one critical truth-they're Jewish-putting them increasingly at risk.
When World War II breaks out, the four are still in Germany or German-occupied lands, unable or unwilling to leave. How will these cousins avoid the horrors of the Nazi regime, a regime that wants them dead? Will they be able to avoid the deportations and concentration camps that have claimed their fellow Jews? Danger is their constant companion, and it will take hope and more to survive.
Advance Praise
Readers will find this follow up to Suchman’s prior novel, Stumbling Stones, both a heartbreaking reminder of the Holocaust’s atrocities and a compelling tribute to a family’s refusal to surrender to despair...Richly compelling Holocaust account, centered on the power of hope. -- Booklife by Publishers Weekly
Author Bonnie Suchman has a way of making every moment count with her characters in a narrative that feels powerfully real as she spins deeply personal stories against a sweeping and tragic backdrop of history. ..What Remains is Hope is historical fiction at its best, and I’d highly recommend it to fans of gripping fiction that’s emotionally resonant and grounded in truth. Rated 5 Stars. Review by K.C. Finn for Readers' Favorite.
Suchman’s historical novel, based on real-life stories of her spouse’s German relatives, tracks the harrowing history of four Jewish cousins in Germany as they struggle to survive the years before and during World War II. -- Kirkus Reviews.
With straightforward prose and a cast of strong, compelling characters, Bonnie Suchman’s WHAT REMAINS IS HOPE retells the atrocities of the Holocaust through the intimate, tight bond of family. It is a quiet, moving tribute to love, loss, and the lasting power of hope. - IndieReader.
