
Wunderland (EXPT) |
Subtitle:
A Novel
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Author:
EPSTEIN, JENNIFER CODY
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Editor::
Teeman, Hilary
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ISBN 13:
9781984824905
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Price:
$18.00
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Publication Year:
2019
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Publisher Info
Penguin Random House. InquiryBook Description
It's 1989 in New York City and Ava Fischer is a mess: she's broke, her teenage daughter is barely speaking to her, and her estranged mother's ashes have just arrived from Germany by mail. Things were never easy between Ava and her mother, Ilse. Throughout Ava's childhood in Germany, first in an orphanage after WWII and then in Ilse's care, too many unspoken secrets hovered between them: Who was Ava's father? Why won't her mother tell her anything about him? And what exactly was Ilse doing during the war? In a trove of unsent letters that arrive with Ilse's ashes, written to Ilse's childhood best friend, Renate, Ava begins to find her answers, sending her spiraling deep into the past of the mother she never truly knew.
It's 1933 in Berlin.