Author:
Armando Correa
Nominated By:
Susan Updegrove
fiction
Seven decades of secrets unravel with the arrival
of a box of letters from the distant past, taking readers on a harrowing
journey from Nazi-occupied Berlin, to the South of France, to modern-day New
York City.
Berlin, 1939. The dreams that Amanda Sternberg and
her husband, Julius, had for their daughters are shattered when the Nazis
descend on Berlin, burning down their beloved family bookshop and sending
Julius to a concentration camp. Desperate to save her children, Amanda flees
toward the South of France. Along the way, a refugee ship headed for Cuba
offers another chance at escape and there, at the dock, Amanda is forced to
make an impossible choice that will haunt her for the rest of her life. Once
in Haute-Vienne, her brief respite is interÂrupted by the arrival of Nazi
forces, and Amanda finds herself in a labor camp where she must once again
make a heroic sacrifice.
New York, 2015. Eighty-year-old Elise Duval
receives a call from a woman bearing messages from a time and country that
she forced herself to forget. A French Catholic who arrived in New York
after World War II, Elise is shocked to discover that the letters were from
her mother, written in German during the war. Her mother's words unlock a
floodgate of memories, a lifetime of loss un-grieved, and a chance at last
for closure.
Based on true events and breathtakingly threaded
together from start to finish with the sound of a beating heart (The New
York Times Book Review), The Daughter's Tale is an unforgettable family saga
of love, survival, and redemption.
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