Miranda never expected to find herself living in Vienna, a city her Jewish grandparents had called home before they were forced to flee in the 1930s. But in 2022, after traumatically losing her own home and gaining her Austrian citizenship, she found herself in the City of Dreams. A Viennese Whirl is a collection of essays that weaves together Miranda's experiences that brought her to Vienna and the circumstances that forced her ancestors out. It is an exploration of family, memory, identity, trauma, home, and survival. It is a meditation on love, the importance of story, and hope.