Secret

"The plot--young girl grows up and struggles to find her own identity--is familiar, but in most examples the writer reflects upon the reality we know, not the one we imagine. This gives Hoffman's characters their ambiguity. They are and they are not like us....A brave venture for a writer whose known and acknowledged forte has been her ability to study and convey the historical moment....First as a Jew in Poland, then as an immigrant in the US, Hoffman learned how the outsider can appear and be made to feel a monster and what adjustments, at what sacrifice, have to be made to finally belong to and be accepted by society. In THE SECRET it is not history that has created such a situation, but science. Whatever the cause, she understands the situation and gives us an account of it that is affecting."Hoffman, Eva is the author of 'Secret', published 2004 under ISBN 9780345465368 and ISBN 0345465369.