Judy Batalion Books in Order

Raised amid her mother's hoarding, Judy Batalion builds an adult life around order before motherhood disrupts her carefully controlled world. Reflecting on three generations of women, she examines inherited trauma, family bonds, and the difficult work of creating a home.

Batalion reconstructs the lives of Jewish women who joined resistance networks in Nazi-occupied Poland. Following couriers, fighters, smugglers, and saboteurs, she traces their efforts to protect communities and resist persecution through the destruction of the ghettos and beyond.

In 1938 Warsaw, an aspiring artist and a young Jewish activist search for a missing woman important to them both. Their uneasy alliance crosses differences of class and ambition as antisemitism grows and danger closes around the city.