Author Talk: Our Narrow Hiding Places by Kristopher Jansma

Author Kristopher Jansma writes a sweeping story of survival and the terrible cost of war—and a reminder that sometimes the traumas we inherit come along with a resilience we never imagined. In the novel, an elderly woman recounts her Dutch family’s survival during the final years of Nazi occupation, shedding new light on old secrets that rippled through subsequent generations.

Jansma, director of the creative writing program at SUNY New Paltz, is the winner of the 2014 Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award.