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…..