Michael Frank Books in Order

Frank recalls growing up within an unusually intertwined Hollywood family dominated by his charismatic screenwriter aunt. Her lavish attention shapes his taste and education, but seeking independence forces him to reconsider both their bond and the family story he inherited.

A widowed translator meets a sensitive teenager and his fertility-specialist father in Florence. Reconnecting in New York draws all three into a complicated relationship shaped by childlessness, bereavement, identity, and competing hopes for a different kind of family.

Through conversations over six years, Stella Levi recalls Jewish life on Rhodes, deportation to Auschwitz, and the community destroyed there. Frank's account follows her memories and later resilience while tracing the friendship formed between storyteller and listener.