“[Berger] writes with a meticulous realism that dissects behavior and motivations with clinical precision… An engrossing, soulful story of people working their way toward redemption.”

—Kirkus Reviews

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About the Covo Family Saga

From the Jewish community in Salonika, Greece, through the hell of the Holocaust, through redemption at an Orthodox monastery and in a Brooklyn psychiatrist’s office, hearing the ecstatic applause showered on a piano prodigy, into the arms of the Theotokos, in prayer and in solemn remembrance of learning the Talmud, and in courts of law where justice hangs in the balance, the s of literary fiction.

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About the Author

Bruce is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and Harvard Law School, received his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from American University. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, with his wife, Laurie. When not writing fiction and poetry, the author plays baseball and classical piano. Forgiven is the fourth novel in his Covo Family Saga series.

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