from cindyloumn

Really liked it. Great story teller. I kept waiting for something horrible to happen, and things did, but nothing graphically horrific. Story of germany, and what a woman does to save herself and her daughter from hitler. She has an affair with an SS officer. She then is saved by a US officer, wh...

from Rosiers.Nicole

I just can't deny my disappointment when reaching the ending of the book. The whole time while I was reading this book, it was difficult to stop reading. If time was on my side, I would have finished it in just one reading session. The story really pulled me in. But when reaching the end... I fli...

from BookConcierge

Dr Trudy Swenson is a professor of history at the Univ of Minnesota. After she goes home for her father's funeral she begins to question her history, and her mother's silence. She has always know that Jack wasn't her real father - that he had married Anna and brought her and her daughter from Wei...

from pdebolt

This is a beautifully written book that alternates between Trudy in the present and her mother, Anna, reliving life in Germany during WWII. Anna's experiences as a young German woman living near Buchenwald with her daughter and her life as the mistress of an SS officer are told in heart-rending d...

from Trinity

I loved this book! The material itself was difficult to read but the author made the difficult easy by giving the reader such endearing and in contrast, hateful characters. I found myself almost wishing for the ending of the book just to know that the main characters ended up OK. As a result, the...