Bookshop Interview with Author Francine Falk-Allen, Episode #231

Author Francine Falk-Allen discusses her new book, A Wolff in the Family. This novel has its origins in a Francine’s own family history. About twenty years ago, she learned a family secret that very few of her living relatives knew. She discovered that the five youngest of her mother’s eleven siblings were sent to an orphanage by her grandfather. It was Francine’s mother, the eldest of the siblings, who kept the siblings in touch with each other through the years. In A Wolff in the Family, Francine explores the family’s hardships during the 1920s and 30s and the circumstances that would lead a father to place his own children in an orphanage, as well as the effects that decision had on the rest of the family.