“Uncovering Hidden Truths: Caroline Topperman Reveals the Secrets Behind ‘Your Roots Cast a Shadow'”
Caroline Topperman: The book idea came in 1995 right after my mom passed away. I had just started film school. My dad and I would walk and talk, and I recorded our conversations. I started to write a screenplay based on these conversations, but I’m a little embarrassed to admit at the time, I was more interested in my mother’s side of the family than my father’s. And so, I kind of left the screenplay. It didn’t go anywhere. The summer after my mom died, my father took us to Poland. There I saw more family, learned more things, and the information grew. It was in 2015, after I had moved to Poland, that I started writing. But it was not this book at all.
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