The Globe and Mail wins three Jack Webster Awards
Max Wyman Award announcement
Voice of Lisa Brandt blog
"Kiss the Red Stairs is meticulously researched, but it’s not quite a history book. A memoir, but not entirely that, either. It’s about the Holocaust’s effect now, today, with acknowledgement of other genocides and horrors in this world."
Read the full review here.
Read the full review here.
Heritage Toronto 2023 Book Awards nominations
Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed is nominated for a 2023 Heritage Toronto Award in the Books category.
Details and more information here
Details and more information here
Jewish Independent: Western Canada Jewish Book Awards
Quill & Quire: Shortlists announced for 2023 Western Canada Jewish Book Awards
Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed is a finalist for The Cindy Roadburg Memorial Prize For Memoir/Biography
More details here
More details here
The Globe 100: The Best Books of 2022
"It’s an enormous achievement – harrowing yet ultimately uplifting. I wept and I also laughed – sometimes on the same page," wrote author Ann-Marie MacDonald.
Quill & Quire: Books of the Year
Asked to recommend a favourite book of 2022, author/reviewer/ Robert J. Wiersema writes: "absolutely stunning ... a vivid portrait of loss and endless searching." Read the full feature here.
The British Columbia Review
"Marsha Lederman’s gift as a storyteller is to create a cohesive patchwork of interlocking narratives. ... These are random moments of beauty and new beginnings in the aftermath of unimaginable loss and devastation." Read the full review here.
CBC The Next Chapter
Marsha joined Shelagh Rogers and panelists David A. Robertson and Brian Isaac Thomas to discuss the late Harold R. Johnson's final book, The Power of Story.
Read and listen to the interview here.
Read and listen to the interview here.
TVOntario The Agenda
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Vancouver Sun
"Art can provide an element of witness on the killing fields of history and help redeem the human experience. This book does just that, and does it in shapely, well-crafted prose.
Highly recommended."
Highly recommended."
Read the full review here.
Winnipeg Free Press
"She takes scraps and shards of family memories and pastes them together with the broad sweep of Holocaust history to try and develop an understanding of herself and her parents as she struggles through her divorce."
Read the full review here.
BC BookWorld
"Lederman also inherited her parents' resilience. And their humour."
Access the summer issue of BC BookWorld here.
Access the summer issue of BC BookWorld here.
Stir
"Meticulously researched, Kiss the Red Stairs is a potent mix of personal, familial, and world history; raw emotion and brutally honest self-reflection; and psychology and science, written with the confidence and clarity of a seasoned journalist and the frankness and vulnerability of a dear friend."
Read the full review here.
Read the full review here.
CTV The Social
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CBC The Current
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CTV Your Morning
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CBC Vancouver: On The Coast
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The Globe and Mail
Marsha wrote about the aunt she never got to meet and other vanished victims of the Holocaust.
Marsha talked about her book on The Globe's podcast The Decibel.
Marsha wrote about the experience of recording her audiobook.
Montecristo Magazine
Marsha wrote about being soothed by Vancouver as she tackled difficult subject matter in her book.
TVO.org Daily
“Brilliant, sensitive" ... "a truly wonderful book.” — Steve Paikin
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