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"You are not my father,"
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he says at the end of the novel
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as he throws his father out of the house, essentially.
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It's a way of getting the second generation out of the way
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and hopping into that space,
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so you can see it in the second- and third-generation structure.
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You swipe the parents out of the way,
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and you hop into their place,
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as immediately descended from the people who experienced these events.
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A problem for Americans writing about the Holocaust is that,
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even if you immigrated here as a survivor,
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this is not the land of those events,