The Remaking of Myles

Myles Niemann has spent decades carrying a weight that was never his to bear — the inherited trauma of parents who survived the Holocaust. "I am me, not just a child of Holocaust survivors," he insists. Not everyone in his family agrees.

When his mother dies, everything Myles has built unravels. His marriage ends. His banking career collapses. And a devastating truth, hidden from him since her final hours, threatens to unmake everything he thought he knew about himself.

Then he meets Aura — a gallery curator whose fierce curiosity and refusal to accept easy answers forces him to confront who he really is, beneath the guilt, the grief, and the inheritance he never asked for.

Can Myles finally choose the life he wants — not the one shaped by survival, but one built on his own terms?

A literary family drama about inheritance, identity, and the courage to build a life on your own terms — for readers of David Grossman and Taffy Brodesser-Akner.