โ Scribed by Heidi Diehl
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"A graceful, attentive, and beautiful debut." --George Saunders
Named a Best Book of the Summer by Cosmopolitan, Nylon, and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune
For fans of Meg Wolitzer and Maggie Shipstead: a sweeping debut novel following an American artist who returns to Germany --where she fell in love and had a child decades earlier--to confront her past at her former mother-in-law's funeral.
It's 1971 when Louise leaves Oregon for Dusseldorf, a city grappling with its nation's horrific recent history, to study art. Soon she's embroiled in a scene dramatically different from the one at home, thanks in large part to Dieter, a mercurial musician. Their romance ignites quickly, but life gets in the way: an unplanned pregnancy, hasty marriage, the tense balance of their creative ambitions, and--finally, fatally--a family secret that shatters Dieter, and drives Louise home.
But in 2008 she's...
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