Clarissa Jakobsons is the kind of gifted writer whose memories become your memories. You will read her book Baltic Amber in a Chest about the suffering of her family during and after World War II again and again, and each time it will be like listening to the voice of the person you love the most, telling you of their greatest fears and needs and triumphs. —John Guzlowski, author of Echoes of Tattered Tongues