When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank, Before the Diary

A beautiful novel exploring the little-known story ofAnne Frank's life before she went into hiding – from bestselling,award-winning author Alice Hoffman and published in cooperationwith the Anne Frank House.In soaring prose, bestselling author Alice Hoffman brings AnneFrank to life on the page, drawing from her extensive research inEurope and the United States, to depict her experiences from themoment the Nazis invade the Netherlands until her family is forcedinto hiding in the annex of her father's office building at 263Prinsengracht, in Amsterdam.As state-sponsored discrimination turns ordinary people into monsters,the Jews of the Netherlands are caught in an inescapableswell of violence and hate, and Anne is shaped as both a young womanand as a writer who will change the world.WHEN WE FLEW AWAY features archival content providedby the Anne Frank House, as well as information about OttoFrank's desperate bids to get his family to safety in America gatheredfrom correspondence between Otto Frank and Nathan Straus,Jr., from the Straus Historical Society's Archives. A heart-wrenching exploration of Anne's life before the annexBy New York Times bestselling author of The WorldWe Knew, Alice HoffmanFeaturing archival content provided by the Anne Frank House