![]() Highly recommended," and Kirkus Reviews called it a “poignant book” which “sheds new light on the history of World War II.” Pop Matters reviewer Chris Ingalls wrote of the book that “with All Ships Follow Me, Mieke Eerkens has written a unique and harrowing account of (WWII) through the history of her parents.” While reception was largely positive in media, some online controversy was generated by a reviewer for National Public Radio, who argued that the narratives of children of oppressors should not be publicly told, writing that “the book itself is unimpeachably competent… However, the sheer fact of the book rustles up rustles up troubling questions about memory, vengeance, oppression and the privilege to be heard.” The translation rights to the book were sold to De Geus in The Netherlands, and to Agora in Poland.Įerkens’ work has appeared in publications such as The Atlantic, The Rumpus, Los Angeles Review of Books, Pank, Guernica, Catapult, and Creative Nonfiction. The Historical Novel Society described the book as a “war memoir that reads as hauntingly and movingly as a novel. Career Įerkens’ debut book, All Ships Follow Me: A Family Memoir of War Across Three Continents, was published by Picador, an imprint of MacMillan, in April 2019, and recounts her father's childhood internment in a men's labor camp by the Japanese in Java, Indonesia during World War II, and her mother's experience in a children's home after her parents were arrested as members of the Nazi-allied NSB party after the German capitulation in the Netherlands. In 2013, she earned an MFA at the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program, where she studied under John D'Agata, Ethan Canin, and Geoff Dyer, among others. She received her MA in English Literature at Leiden University in 2003. In 2001, she received a Bachelor’s degree in English, Creative Writing with a minor in Cinema Studies, at San Francisco State University. She is the middle child of three, and attended Palisades Charter High School. Mieke Eerkens grew up in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California in a Dutch immigrant family. ![]()
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