Wunderland

Description:

"East Village, 1989. Things had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother Ilse. Too many questions hovered between them: Who was Ava's father? Where had Ilse been during the war? Why had she left her only child in a German orphanage during the war's final months? But now Ilse's ashes have arrived from Germany, and with them, a trove of unsent letters addressed to someone else unknown to Ava: Renate Bauer, a childhood friend. As her mother's letters unfurl a dark past, Ava spirals deep into the shocking history of a woman she never truly knew. Berlin, 1933. As the Nazi party tightens its grip on the city, Ilse and Renate find their friendship under siege - and Ilse's increasing involvement in the Hitler Youth movement leaves them on opposing sides of the gathering storm. Then the Nuremburg Laws force Renate to confront a long-buried past, and a catastrophic betrayal is set in motion..."--Publisher description.

subjects: Fiction, historical,  Germany, fiction,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  American literature,  Female friendship,  Fiction,  Mothers and daughters,  Politics and government,  History,  FICTION / Historical / World War II,  Epistolary fiction

Places: Germany,  East Village (New York, N.Y.)

Times: 20th century,  1933-1945