The Conversations We Never Had

The Conversations We Never Had, by Jeffrey H. Konis, is the tale of a grandson who had taken his grandmother for granted, who wanted a second chance, who yearned for the opportunity to learn about his family from the only person in the world who knew them and remembered them.

It wasn’t until his Grandma "Ola" died that Jeffrey H. Konis realized how little he actually knew about her life.

“My father remembers nothing about his real parents. They were dead by the time he was nine. Olga, his mother's younger sister, not only survived the Holocaust, but was able to find my father at his hiding place – a farm in Poland – and later brought him to America to raise as her own. In all that time, he never asked her any questions about his parents,” says Konis. “Years later, I moved in with Olga for a period of time, but I allowed history to repeat itself – a classic mistake – and failed to ask her the same questions my father avoided.”

Olga has been gone for more than twenty years, along with everything she could have told Konis, leaving him with a sense of guilt and profound regret. The Conversations We Never Had is a chronicle of Konis’s time spent with his Grandma "Ola" and an imagining of the stories she might have shared had he only worked up the courage to ask the questions.

The Conversations We Never Had is heartwarming, painful, and intimate story that will leave you eager to spend time with your family and have those conversations while you still can.