Anne Michaels is a Canadian author and the current poet laureate of Toronto. Her best piece of work is her novel Fugitive Pieces which has won many awards and was adapted for film. The book is made up of two parts; the first part is about a young Jewish boy (Jakob Beer) in Poland that escapes the Nazis and is rescued by a Greek man named, Athos Roussos. The second part is about a man named Ben whose parents were Holocaust survivors. Ben is an admirer of Jakob and respects the way he dealt with the Holocaust because, he (Ben) has trouble coping with what his parents
