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Germany, 1945. Eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman is alive, but not
whole. Her body is just beginning to heal from the trauma of the
Holocaust, her mind is broken, and her life is shattered. She knows
that she will never see her beloved parents, grandmother, or aunt
again-she watched as they were all sent to the left, to the gas
chambers, at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Only she and her younger brother
Abek were sent to the right, and her last words to him were a
promise: Abek to Zofia, A to Z. When I find you again, we will fill
our alphabet. And we will be whole, and everything will be fine. I
promise I will find you. Desperate to find Abek, fulfill her vow,
and rebuild their lives, Zofia's search brings her to their
hometown in Poland and then deep into a displaced persons camp in
Germany. There, Zofia meets fellow Holocaust survivors, each
battling with their painful pasts and working towards different
futures. There's Briene, eager to marry her new beau and start a
new life; Miriam, searching far and wide for the twin she was
separated from at liberation, who was the victim of horrible
experiments; and Josef, who picks fights with bullies and refuses
to talk about his past, but whose good looks and unexpected honesty
draw Zofia in. The deeper Zofia digs, the more impossible her
search seems. How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing? And
if she does find him, how can she know that it's her Abek? After
surviving unimaginable horrors, Zofia must now delve into a mystery
whose answers could break her--or help her rebuild her world.
Amsterdam, 1943 Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering
sought-after black-market goods to paying customers, her nights
hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and
every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the
front line when the Germans invaded. She likes to think of her
illegal work as a small act of rebellion. But one day Hanneke gets
a very unusual request. One of her regular customers asks her to
find a girl. A girl who has disappeared from the secret room in her
house. A Jewish girl . . . As she searches for clues Hanneke is
drawn into a dangerous web of lies, secrets and mysteries. Can she
find the runaway before the Nazis do? Meticulously researched,
intricately plotted and beautifully written, The Girl in the Blue
Coat is the extraordinarily gripping novel from Monica Hesse. 'A
gripping historical mystery' Publishers Weekly, starred review
Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left a Virginia county
reeling, reporter Monica Hesse drove to Accomack to cover the trial
of Charlie Smith who pled guilty to 67 counts of arson. But Smith
wasn't lighting fires alone: his crimes were galvanised by a
twisted love story. Hesse uncovered the motives of this troubled
addict and his accomplice, Tonya Bundick. In depicting the
dangerous shift in their passionate relationship, Hesse brings to
life the once-thriving coastal community and its distressed
inhabitants, decimated by a punishing economy and increasingly
terrified by a string of fires they could not explain.
Incorporating this drama into the history of arson in the US,
American Fire re-creates the anguished nights of this quiet county
lit up in flames, evoking a microcosm of rural America-a land
gutted before the fires began.
The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for
months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to
see which building would burn down next, regarding each other at
first with compassion, and later suspicion. Vigilante groups sprang
up, patrolling the rural Virginia coast with cameras and
camouflage. Volunteer firefighters slept at their stations. The
arsonist seemed to target abandoned buildings, but local police
were stretched too thin to surveil them all. Accomack was
desolate-there were hundreds of abandoned buildings. And by the
dozen they were burning. The culprit, and the path that led to
these crimes, is a story of twenty-first century America.
Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse first drove down to the
reeling county to cover a hearing for Charlie Smith, a struggling
mechanic who upon his capture had promptly pleaded guilty to
sixty-seven counts of arson. But as Charlie's confession unspooled,
it got deeper and weirder. He wasn't lighting fires alone; his
crimes were galvanized by a surprising love story. Over a year of
investigating, Hesse uncovered the motives of Charlie and his
accomplice, girlfriend Tonya Bundick, a woman of steel-like
strength and an inscrutable past. Theirs was a love built on
impossibly tight budgets and simple pleasures. They were each
other's inspiration and escape...until they weren't. Though it's
hard to believe today, one hundred years ago Accomack was the
richest rural county in the nation. Slowly it's been drained of its
industry-agriculture-as well as its wealth and population. In an
already remote region, limited employment options offer little in
the way of opportunity. A mesmerizing and crucial panorama with
nationwide implications, American Fire asks what happens when a
community gets left behind. Hesse brings to life the Eastern Shore
and its inhabitants, battling a punishing economy and increasingly
terrified by a string of fires they could not explain. The result
evokes the soul of rural America-a land half gutted before the
fires even began.
Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen
concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to
eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to
heal; her mind feels broken. And her life is completely shattered:
Three years ago, she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only
members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas
chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone else--her parents, her
grandmother, radiant Aunt Maja--they went left. Zofia's last words
to her brother were a promise: Abek to Zofia, A to Z. When I find
you again, we will fill our alphabet. Now her journey to fulfill
that vow takes her through Poland and Germany, and into a displaced
persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a
future from a painful past: Miriam, desperately searching for the
twin she was separated from after they survived medical
experimentation. Breine, a former heiress, who now longs only for a
simple wedding with her new fiance. And Josef, who guards his past
behind a wall of secrets, and is beautiful and strange and magnetic
all at once. But the deeper Zofia digs, the more impossible her
search seems. How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing? In
the rubble of a broken continent, Zofia must delve into a mystery
whose answers could break her--or help her rebuild her world.
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