Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Meryl Ain! Writes: If there’s one thing JoJo Lubinski wants, it’s to become a famous actress. Her fraternal twin sister, Bronka, wants a career in journalism as well as a home and family. Complicating these dreams is their knotty family background. Their mother saved their father during the Holocaust and the family came to New York after World War II. But their father still suffers from the trauma of the Holocaust as well as losing his first family. Both sisters are constrained by the times in which they live. JoJo faces an unplanned pregnancy in the years before Roe v. Wade became the law of the land. Bronka is faced with quotas for female students when she applies to journalism school and later discrimination in her professional life. Her friend and colleague, Brian, discovers that his father was a guard at Auschwitz. The twins, Brian, and other characters in Shadows We Carry, grapple with their family’s ancestry, family secrets and bloodlines. Meanwhile, both young women…

