Kaethe Schalk returns to Germany to search for her missing twenty-two-year old daughter, Sophie, and finds herself reminiscing about her childhood spent in East Berlin and her relationship with her estranged father.
A young American couple is touring Germany with their two children. During an Alpine hike, the parents, eager to hunt mushrooms down the slope, settle their drowsy children to nap in the glade. When the kids awake, the sun has set and they are alone, their world changed. They are found eventually by strangers and returned to an America they might have never known.
This story of a brother and sister, abandoned in childhood and determined to survive in an inchoate and unfeeling world, makes fascinating reading. The author's voice, clear and authentic, mark her as an original". -- Anne Bernays
A young American couple is touring Germany with their two children. During an Alpine hike, the parents, eager to hunt mushrooms down the slope, settle their drowsy children to nap in the glade. When the kids awake, the sun has set and they are alone, their world changed. They are found eventually by strangers and returned to an America they might have never known.
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