This document provides information about the novel "Only by Blood" by Renate Krakauer, including details about the book such as its publisher, year of release, format, and ISBN number. It summarizes that the novel tells the story of a search for roots and family reconciliation across 60 years, and depicts the lengths mothers will go to save their daughters and the secrets they will keep to protect them from pain, set within the context of Polish-Jewish relations during and after World War II.

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Book Information
Title: Only by Blood
Author: Renate Krakauer
Publisher: Inanna Publications
Distributor: Brunswick Books
5.5” x 8.25” / 250 pp / 22.95 CDN
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 978-177133-209-5
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program, and the
financial assistance of the the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.
Renate Krakauer (2015)
Inanna Publications
FOR RELEASE: March 27, 2015
Contact: Renée Knapp, Publicist, Inanna Publica�ons and Educa�on Inc.
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For author interviews, or more informa�on, please contact reneeknapp@inanna.ca
or 416 736 5356.
Renate Krakauer’s career included
senior roles in educa�on, and municipal
and provincial governments. She has
published award-winning short fic�on
in a number of literary journals, among
them Parchment, The Storyteller,Parchment, The Storyteller,Parchment, The Storyteller and
Foliate Oak; essays in the The Globe
and Mail, journals and two anthologies;
a memoir But I Had a Happy Childhood;
and two plays. Only by Blood is her first
novel. Renate lives in Toronto with her
husband. She has three adult children,
two stepsons, and six grandchildren.
Only by Blood is a novel of the search for roots, mother-daughter love,
and family reconcilia�on.
Spanning over sixty years, this story tells about the lengths to which
mothers will go in order to save their daughters and the secrets they will
keep to protect them from pain. Set in the broader context of the fraught
rela�onship of Poles and Jews during and a�er the Second World War, it
depicts the circumstances that made some ordinary people behave hero-
ically while others betrayed their friends and neighbours.
“Moving back and forth de�ly over a sixty-year period, Only by Blood
compellingly recreates the experience of two Polish families first trying to
survive the Second World War and then suffering the unforeseen conse-
quences of that survival. Krakauer’s novel is at once a lyrical testament to
the power of love and an exci�ng page-turner, as full of twists and turns as
any true-crime novel.”
—Susan Glickman, poet and author of The Violin Lover andThe Violin Lover andThe Violin Lover The Tale Teller
“Only by Blood is another remarkable testament to a lost genera�on. InOnly by Blood is another remarkable testament to a lost genera�on. InOnly by Blood
this vivid, moving and remarkable novel, Renate Krakauer captures what it
means for families to be displaced, or to be torn asunder, the parts never
to meet again, to lose all dignity, self-respect and self-regard and indeed,
in many cases, to lose our most precious possession: life itself. Krakauer’s
novel joins the many on this heavy but hopeful shelf of stories—hopeful
because, without them, history is bound to repeat itself.”
— Joe Kertes, author of Gra�tude and The A�erlife of Stars