“A profound account of the author’s visits to Holocaust memorial sites in Eastern Europe and Israel, a fascinating family story of migration and tragedy embedded in the larger history of catastrophic world events, a generous introduction to Jewish practices for the secular reader, Jodi Varon’s series of connected essays, Your Eyes Will Be My Window, is also a daughter and granddaughter’s quest for answers to some of the most crucial questions of our time: How do we remember those who died of violence? How do we overcome the fear of ‘fantastical harm’ that comes with generational trauma?  How do we live with scars both visible and invisible?”

— Melissa Kwasny, author of Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today

"As the author reminds us in essay after essay in this stunning collection, the past is often 'masked, throttled, suppressed,' but it never goes away. This is true for Holocaust and domestic violence survivors alike but especially so for their descendants, who, even decades after the events, continue to seek ways to transform generational grief and longing into a way forward. Accompanying Jodi Varon while she strives to uncover her past’s reach and meaning is an unforgettable journey."

— Piotr Florczyk, author of From the Annals of Kraków

"Witness, voyeur, and provocateur, Jodi Varon doesn’t shy from the visceral realities of the people she meets on her mythic journey, whether in the present or the distant past. Part heartbreaking history, part plaintive imagining, the essays in this beautifully interwoven collection detail a quest for meaning and identity in the face of violence, dislocation, and profound loss. By turns unabashedly sacred and fearlessly profane, viscerally intimate and informed by the grim determinism of Old-World fairy tales, Varon’s lyrical observations, reflections, and confessions act as a vivisection on the body of memory."

— Kim Barnes, author of In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country