Dola De Jong

Identical twins find happiness in diverse futures, one happily married and domestic, the other a successful concert pianist.

Eleven-year-old David becomes absorbed in the history of Greenwich Village when his family buys an old house on Richmond Hill that has its own mysterious history.

When a seventeen-year-old Dutch girl, who has grown up in a concentration camp and an orphanage, comes to the United States to live with a psychoanalyst and her teenage son and daughter, the three young people have trouble getting along until a summer at the ocean and their mother's impending remarriage force all three to face reality and maturity.

The autobiographical story of a family in Holland during the early days of World War II, ending with the surrender of Holland to the Nazi invaders.