Inspired by the family of the author’s paternal grandmother, the Modianos, The Tribe traces the fortunes of the Carraches, a powerful Sephardic dynasty in Salonica, from the dying days of the Ottoman Empire through exile, occupation and the aftermath of the Holocaust. After the Greek annexation of the city, the family settles in France, until the Nazi Occupation sends some into hiding, some into flight, and others into camps. In the early 1960s, the survivors and their children contend with the family’s past. Both panoramic and intimate, this entrancing novel examines the forces of history alongside the loyalties and fractures within a family, offering a sweeping meditation on survival, memory and inheritance.