Inside their parents' eyes and heart, children never grow up. On a TV commercial, a dad talks to his little girl sitting on the driver's seat of a car, pretending to drive. Her little legs stretch straight in front of her, she tries to reach up to the steering wheel. Her Dad talks just like me …
Following Shadows
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Meet Janneke
Following Shadows is inspired by my own story. As a survivor of an international childhood with parents who were World War II survivors, I know the generational after-effects of starvation and slave labor in Japanese concentration camps for my father, and the terror of Nazi occupation for my mother. I know the challenges of struggling to feel at home across three countries: The Netherlands, Iran and America.