All the broken places : a novel
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Published
[New York] : Pamela Dorman Books, Viking, [2022].
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387 pages ; 24 cm.
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction | FIC | Checked Out | May 7, 2024 |
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Published
[New York] : Pamela Dorman Books, Viking, [2022].
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Book
Language
English
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Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn’t talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age 12. She doesn’t talk about the grim post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn’t talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich’s most notorious extermination camps. Then, a new family moves into the apartment below her. In spite of herself, Gretel can’t help but begin a friendship with the little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back memories she would rather forget. One night, she witnesses a disturbing, violent argument between Henry’s beautiful mother and his arrogant father, one that threatens Gretel’s hard-won, self-contained existence.
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