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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,
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and so I think this gives us some insight
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into the use of the European setting.
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Europe is where the important history happened.
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That's why a novel trying to be important
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in these terms has to be set there.