blueink review: “For Vera Leinvebers, a concert pianist and music teacher now living in Canada, childhood memories of war, loss and dislocation are so painful and traumatic she is forced to create a fictional self Lara to retell them, even from a safe distance. When her family flees her childhood home in Riga, Latvia, toward the end of World War ll, Lara embarks on the journey that, by its end, robs her of her brother, her beloved animals, her education, her…..
TITLE INFORMATION NO TIME TO CRY Leinvebers, Vera iUniverse (236 pp.) $28.95 hardcover, $18.95 paperback, $3.99 e-book ISBN: 978-1462058457; October 28, 2011 BOOK REVIEW A beautifully written memoir about the author’s horrific childhood experiences in Latvia during World War II. Referring to herself as Lara in her memoir, author Leinvebers goes back and forth between her present, when she is a world-renowned pianist living in Canada, and her childhood, when she endured extreme measures of brutality and abuse. Lara was…..