The novel is broken into two distinct sections. The second half of the book is narrated by Ben, a Canadian professor born of Holocaust survivors who, sent to Greece to bring back Jakob's journals, finds himself lingering in Jakob's words, trying to understand the atrocities his parents survived to bring him into the world. The book is broken into two parts, the first narrated by a Polish man named Jakob Beer who is reflecting on his childhood as a Jewish boy living in Poland during World War II. In Fugitive Pieces, a historical novel published in 1996, Canadian poet Anne Michaels explores the aftermath of war on memory, and how war shapes the psyche even when a person does not directly experience its violence.
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