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Description
For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“"It's like being in a sort of club, isn’t it? A bereavement club. You don't choose to join it; it's thrust upon you. And the members whose live have been changed have more knowledge than those who aren't in it, but the price of belonging is so terribly high."”
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“"She feels noting except the certainty that she is the butt of a cosmic joke. Has she really dared to think happiness is for her? She has been a fool. Somewhere the gods are slapping their giant robed knees and laughing."”
First Sentence
THE EVENING IS TYPICAL ENOUGH UNTIL THE DOG BEGINS to choke.
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- Jenna Blum (Author)
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