A woman and her niece are bound together and driven apart by loves, desires, frustrations, and addictions. East Berlin, a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Eva, a retired nurse, makes it through her day on a combination of stimulants and sleeping pills, wine and brandy. She finds fleeting joy in American jazz and blues records, and occasional visits from her married lover. Her friendly teenaged neighbor is her closest companion. Then her American niece, Maggie, arrives in Berlin. Eva is thrilled—Maggie is just the companion she’s been seeking. But happiness begins to slide from Eva’s grasp as Maggie’s own fierce drug addiction reveals itself. Tante Eva is a story that deftly takes in decades of family life and German history, estrangement, joys, and disappointments. It is a portrait of East Berlin in the years after the Wall came down, and of an overlooked woman pursuing happiness and sexual pleasure. It is the finest book yet from Paula Bomer, an author whose work Jonathan Franzen describes as “some of the rawest and most urgent writing I can remember encountering.”

Fatherland By: Johanna Moore Baxandall An artfully crafted narrative of child- and young womanhood in Germany during the Nazi regime. The author, daughter of a beloved, often persecuted Communist father, exposes the conflicted and complex psychology of her early years navigating the political climate of the Third Reich. “A debut memoir recounts a German child’s perilous life under Hitler’s tyranny. . . A gripping war remembrance told with poetical poignancy.” – Kirkus Reviews

The American short story has always been characterized by exciting aesthetic innovations and an immense range of topics. This handbook offers students and researchers a comprehensive introduction to the multifaceted genre with a special focus on recent developments due to the rise of new media. Part I provides systematic overviews of significant contexts ranging from historical-political backgrounds, short story theories developed by writers, print and digital culture, to current theoretical approaches and canon formation. Part II consists of 35 paired readings of representative short stories by eminent authors, charting major steps in the evolution of the American short story from its beginnings as an art form in the early nineteenth century up to the digital age. The handbook examines historically, methodologically, and theoretically the coming together of the enduring narrative practice of compression and concision in American literature. It offers fresh and original readings relevant to studying the American short story and shows how the genre performs American culture.

Austria, 1938. After five months of Nazi rule, a young pastor’s self-sacrifice rocks the city of Villach. Eva, his wife, faces the mounting danger beneath the scrutiny of a reluctant Gestapo agent. As an adventure-ready Alpine guide searches for help for two Jewish orphans, Eva wonders: is God still watching? Still listening? The implications of her husband’s choice are far-reaching, and even the Gestapo must take sides. What happens when there is nowhere left to run?

"A revised and expanded, comprehensive guide to the novels of Native American author Louise Erdrich from Love Medicine to The Painted Drum. Includes chronologies, genealogical charts, complete dictionary of characters, map and geographical details about settings, and a glossary of all the Ojibwe words and phrases used in the novels"--Provided by publisher.

Life is defined by the choices you make. But every choice has a price... As 1934 peters to its uncertain close, each of the Rosens must struggle to wring sense from an unyielding and tumultuous reality that challenges all they’ve ever known and loved. When sacrifice is the only option, living takes courage. Searing, soaring, wry and triumphant, Shortchanged lingers long after its final page. At last collected in a full-length novel, the popular story serialized in Binah Magazine can now be enjoyed in its entirety, enhanced with over 100 pages of deleted scenes, previously published tie-in stories, behind-the-scenes features, historical photos, timeline, and The Miller Memoirs: Rochelle’s Story.