​Houston, Texas – March 14, 2021 – Press Release:  Saint Julian Press is proud to announce a new memoir. Girl Left Behind, by author Judy Temes, which will be published on June 15, 2021.
At age five, Judy Temes was living with her parents and brother in a small town near Hungary’s southern border. Unlike most, the family had comforts: a roomy apartment, a television, even a vacation home. What more could anyone want? But for her father, a doctor and a survivor of the Holocaust, living among the people who stood by as his family was taken to their deaths in cattle cars had become untenable.
​On a summer night in 1969, the family packed the car for what was supposed to be a vacation to Vienna. Only this was no vacation. They were escaping Hungary’s totalitarian regime, using tourist visas that allowed entry into a Western country. Such visas, however, came at a high price. One child had to be left behind. This was the government’s way to ensure that citizens who left the country would return.
​The child left behind was “Juditka,” who would go on to live with her grandmother in a tiny lakeside Hungarian village. When, if ever, would she see her family again? No one knew.
​“Such a lyrical, soul-rending, sumptuous book! It captures the heart and mind of a Hungarian girl who is sad and brave at the same time as she tries to make sense of what looks like her family’s desertion. A testament to the triumph of the human spirit in the face of deep loneliness and loss, Girl Left Behindreminds us that one can have no home anywhere and at the same time have a special kind of home everywhere.”
—Daniel Asa Rose
Author of Hiding Places: A Father and His Sons 
Retrace Their Family’s Escape from the Holocaust, 
and other books
​“This is a story full of heartache but also one which celebrates the strength of the human spirit and the will to survive. It is a book for anyone who has lost someone they loved, or even anyone who never has, but fears the experience. In short—this is a book for everyone.”
—Elizabeth Cohen
Author of The Family on Beartown Road:
A Memoir of Love and Courag
​“Girl Left Behind is a gripping, heartbreaking, and strikingly beautiful memoir of the immigrant experience that is all the more relevant and necessary in today’s political climate. In a tale that is reminiscent of The Liar’s Club and The Glass Castle, Judy Temes, a masterful and compassionate storyteller, captivates the reader with her charm, wit, and lyrical prose. This is a story that will stick with me, and that I will never be able to leave behind.”
—William Dameron
Author of The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages,
Catfishing and Coming Out
​ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Judy Temes is a teacher, writer, and journalist whose work has been published in Crain’s New York Business, The Boston Globe, The Patriot Ledger, and other publications. She lives in Seattle, WA.
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Publication Date: June 15, 2021. 
Paperback: $22.00
ISBN-13: 978-1-7330233-2-0 
Number of pages: 300
For an advance copy contact: Ron Starbuck or Judy Temes.
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