**"BrilliantΒ .Β .Β . Rooted in the shifting California landscape, this elegiac yet hopeful book isΒ .Β .Β . dedicated to grieving the world as we know it." βAda LimΓ³n, author of *The Carrying*** This collection of poems traces literal and metaphoric fault linesβrifts between past and present, childhood
Rift Zone
β Scribed by Raelynn, R J; Hillhouse
- Book ID
- 108475774
- Publisher
- Tom Doherty Associates
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 464 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0765310139
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
In the turbulent years after the rise of the Berlin Wall, Germany stood dangerously divided between freedom and Communism. Dodging border patrols and guard posts, a silent few were able to cross the borders of the Iron Curtain to deliver needed supplies, always at the risk of their own lives.
This is the past Faith Whitney knew. The daughter of an active smuggler of religious paraphernalia, Faith was raised on the danger that such a life brought with it, a danger that can rip lives apart, even that of a mother and daughter. Now grown and living in 1989 Germany, Faith continues to smuggle goods across the border, narrowly slipping by the East German Stasi each time.
But her activities haven't gone unnoticed. The Stasi have recruited her to deliver a package to Moscow, a package that must be delivered within forty-eight hours . . . or Faith will be eliminated. Her payment: the long-desired location of her missing father.
The danger mounts as Faith is secretly...
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