‘Exile Music’ is lyrical tale of a family’s escape from persecution
Music is a central theme in “Exile Music” (Viking, May 2020), a new and welcome addition to World War II Holocaust fiction. A novel laid out in six movements, “Exile Music,” by Jennifer Steil, tells the story of a Jewish family in Vienna that narrowly escapes the Nazis by obtaining visas to Bolivia, one of the only countries that opened its borders to Jews at the time.