Send for Me
A novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction that moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling a thread of love, longing, and the powerful bonds of family. A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!Based on the author s own family letters, Send for Me tells the story of Annelise, a young woman in prewar Germany. Growing up working at her parents popular bakery, she's always imagined a future full of delicious possibilities. Despite rumors that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, Annelise and her parents can t quite believe that it will affect them; they re hardly religious. But as she falls in love, marries, and gives birth to her daughter, the dangers grow closer. Soon Annelise and her husband are given the chance to leave for America, but they must go without her parents, whose future and safety are uncertain.
Two generations later in a small Midwestern city, Annelise s granddaughter, Clare, is a young woman newly in love. But when she stumbles upon a trove of the letters her great-grandmother wrote from Germany after Annelise's departure, she sees the history of her family s sacrifices in a new light, leading her to question whether she can still honor the past while planning for her future.
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I can hardly speak.It starts with the panic, the sound of sharp knocking. The pounding on Annelise s door, a crash in her skull, jolting her from sleep. They re coming. Her heart slams, and she sits up, blind in the darkness. Her arms reach out. Where is the baby? Fear floods her lungs. She s drowning.
They re coming. Breathe. Hold the baby close, keep her quiet.
Is there something else in the churning flood of terror? In the squeeze of panic, the slightest slackening, relief? She s been waiting so long for this moment, dread her constant companion, and now it s here. Whatever horror is about to befall her, she won t have to fear it any longer.
In the room, silent now, she strains to hear. Her heart is pounding so hard her body is thrumming, her hands trembling. Is that her husband next to her, snoring softly? Is that the warm, reassuring shape of him? They will take him, too. They ll take all of it, everything and everyone she has ever loved. In an instant. A flash.
Years will pass, a long, surprising slant of light, and this terror will abate. She will pick her daughter up from school, stand in her kitchen with her hands on her hips, sip from a glass in the evening, slip under smooth sheets. But this will always be her frozen moment, the definition of her days. They will always be pounding on the door in the middle of the night. They will always be coming.
An hour doesn t pass that I don t think about you.
There is so much work to do. Toil is a constant in her life, the ongoing story of her years. In fact, Klara takes some comfort in its predictability, the way that a Sunday afternoon of polishing silver or washing floors can ease her nerves and stretch her mind into a pleasant blankness. And there is the undeniable satisfaction of a task completed, the pleasing order and gleam of a finely tended home.
Of course, there s also the bakery:
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her pride and livelihood, yes, but oh, those dreadful dark mornings, the midday heat, the relentless specifics of the measurements, the unforgiving timing of every little thing. Some days she wakes up, dawn still hours away, and the exhaustion of the day before clings to her; she would want to roll over and go back to sleep if she allowed herself even to want that.
Klara can never let on, can never show this weakness. Annelise grouses and mutters and yawns dramatically, stares with sullen dark eyes and refuses to speak for hours, the spectacle of her displeasure so varied and colorful, she s like a peacock of disdain.
She envies her daughter s extravagance. But Klara can t allow herself to crack. A word of complaint from her could loose an avalanche.
The precision of the bakery does, in a way, appeal to her nature, but it s such a precarious balance. They can t make any mistakes or they pay double, triple the price in lost revenue.
It changes a person all of it, the tasks at hand. Klara has changed of course she has! She s become someone who is entirely focused on the work she must do. But that s simply what it is to be a woman of good standing, to be alive in the world. It defies consideration.
Early in her marriage, there were mishaps: the loaf of bread that almost burned down the apartment, the boiled egg, forgotten, that exploded in the kitchen, sending bits of shell like shrapnel flying around the room. She cleaned up every last splinter before Annelise woke, before Julius came into the kitchen for coffee, and so only Klara herself, who accidentally knelt on a sharp chip of eggshell, was even slightly injured. She considers that injury . . . what? Not a punishment, exactly, but a reminder, the quick, searing pain a cove
Klara can never let on, can never show this weakness. Annelise grouses and mutters and yawns dramatically, stares with sullen dark eyes and refuses to speak for hours, the spectacle of her displeasure so varied and colorful, she s like a peacock of disdain.
She envies her daughter s extravagance. But Klara can t allow herself to crack. A word of complaint from her could loose an avalanche.
The precision of the bakery does, in a way, appeal to her nature, but it s such a precarious balance. They can t make any mistakes or they pay double, triple the price in lost revenue.
It changes a person all of it, the tasks at hand. Klara has changed of course she has! She s become someone who is entirely focused on the work she must do. But that s simply what it is to be a woman of good standing, to be alive in the world. It defies consideration.
Early in her marriage, there were mishaps: the loaf of bread that almost burned down the apartment, the boiled egg, forgotten, that exploded in the kitchen, sending bits of shell like shrapnel flying around the room. She cleaned up every last splinter before Annelise woke, before Julius came into the kitchen for coffee, and so only Klara herself, who accidentally knelt on a sharp chip of eggshell, was even slightly injured. She considers that injury . . . what? Not a punishment, exactly, but a reminder, the quick, searing pain a cove
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Autoren-Porträt von Lauren Fox
Lauren Fox is the author of the novels Days of Awe, Still Life with Husband, and Friends Like Us. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Marie Claire, Parenting, and Psychology Today. She lives in Milwaukee with her family.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lauren Fox
- 2021, 272 Seiten, Masse: 14,5 x 21,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: KNOPF
- ISBN-10: 1101947802
- ISBN-13: 9781101947807
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.01.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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A New York Times Best Historical Novel of the Year An Indie Next Great Read A Parade Best Releases of the Year"An anthropological excavation... It is haunted throughout by the endlessly fascinating question of inheritance. How much of our stories and which parts truly belong to us?... The book is a real achievement beautifully written, deeply felt, tender and thoughtful... The storytelling is patient, generous... The major accomplishment of Send for Me [is] its vivid depiction of a family s heartbreak, its rending and rebuilding."
Clare Lombardo, New York Times Book Review
"Incandescent... Send for Me reads like a memoir but has the kind of intimate detail born in the imagination of a novelist at the top of her game."
People
"Above all, as Fox states many times, Send for Me is a love story. The push-and-pull style of love between parents and their children is what binds Fox s characters and allows the reader to pass fluidly between the different generations of the family, spotting so easily how they have been shaped by those who lived before them.
BookReporter
"Extraordinarily nuanced and moving... Fox elegantly incorporates lines and short excerpts of her own great-grandmother s letters, adding to the power and intimacy of this fine novel."
The National Book Review
"An artfully constructed and richly absorbing novel that shows how love is strengthened, not weakened, over distance and time.
Malcolm Forbes, Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Lauren Fox s newest novel, Send for Me, is a quiet, heartbreaking, intergenerational story that highlights the insidious racism against Jews in World War II and the lingering effects of family trauma... Fox s writing is so deft, the story so subtle and sad, flipping seamlessly from World War II Germany to modern-day Milwaukee. It doesn t put you smack dab in the center of Nazi violence or concentration camp nightmares, but flits around the edges of that
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brutal history to tell a new, altogether different tale a story of lucky ones who escaped, and the guilt that haunts them... a richly imagined, lyrically written story that belongs among novels such as The Book Thief and All the Light We Cannot See. The year is still young, but I ll guarantee this will be on my list of favorites from 2021."
Suzanne Perez, NPR.com
Send for Me is one of those quiet books that resonates long after its final pages. It is about family especially mothers and daughters. It is also about obligation and self. Its beautifully rendered vignettes are, in essence, about the fraying wire that connects us to the past.
Steve Whitton, Anniston Star
Page after page of Send for Me shines with the author s brilliant prose Fox has written a book you will not soon forget.
Mims Cushing, Florida Times-Union
"Fox crafts a heartbreaking tale about how the separation of one mother and daughter was so excruciating that the shadow of that moment lingers on in the family s descendents. Send for Me examines how trauma can be inherited and how it s lingering aches can impact future generations."
The Middletown Press
"Real family letters from Nazi era heighten Send for Me... The Shorewood writer has fused her vocation and her legacy in a memorable way. Her historical novel Send for Me builds on those letters to portray four generations of women in a family ruptured by the Nazi regime... Relevant."
Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"A sense of foreboding shadows this bittersweet intergenerational tale of love and trauma... Subtle, striking, and punctuated by snippets of family letters.. Fox has imbued this deeply personal, ultimately hopeful novel, which she explains in an author s note is based on her own family s story, with emotion, empathy, and an essential understanding of the complicated bonds between generations and the importance of reckoning with the past in order to embrace the future.
An intimate, insightful, intricately rendered story of intergenerational trauma and love."
Kirkus, starred
"Fox deftly moves between generations as she illuminates the ways that choices echo through the lives of those who came after. This thoughtful, character-driven exploration of the unbreakable bonds of motherhood will appeal to fans of Alice Hoffman and Elizabeth Berg.
Booklist
Send For Me is a rare and beautiful novel. In luminous prose, with great economy and precision, Lauren Fox twines together two stories: one that explores both the menace and the day-to-day ordinariness of life in Germany under Hitler, and its aftermath, and one that captures the yearning and intensity of youth in the present day. While sorrow may be inevitable, Fox seems to say, life is also threaded with hope and joy and human connection. I loved this book.
Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train
"Send For Me is stunning in its tender poignancy. A beautifully told story of intergenerational loves and sorrows, the long shadow of memory, and how hope can repair the heartache woven into a family's DNA."
Jennifer Rosner, author of The Yellow Bird Sings
"Imbued with lyrical prose, Send For Me is a beautiful tale of heartbreak and renewal, and of the love and loss we carry with us, generation after generation."
Georgia Hunter, author of We Were the Lucky Ones
"Spanning generations and continents, from pre-WWII Germany to current day midwestern America, Send For Me is a richly imagined testament to the ties that bind: the intricate web of familial duty, the profound love between mothers and daughters, and the tension between honoring one's heritage while not being defined by it. Lauren Fox's first historical novel is moving, heartfelt, and filled with love."
Whitney Scharer, author of Age of Light
"Fox satisfyingly brings this story of love and desire full circle, as Clare and Ruth reflect on what it means to be both a mother and a child in the darkest of times. This tender and deeply inspired story will move readers."
Publishers Weekly
Suzanne Perez, NPR.com
Send for Me is one of those quiet books that resonates long after its final pages. It is about family especially mothers and daughters. It is also about obligation and self. Its beautifully rendered vignettes are, in essence, about the fraying wire that connects us to the past.
Steve Whitton, Anniston Star
Page after page of Send for Me shines with the author s brilliant prose Fox has written a book you will not soon forget.
Mims Cushing, Florida Times-Union
"Fox crafts a heartbreaking tale about how the separation of one mother and daughter was so excruciating that the shadow of that moment lingers on in the family s descendents. Send for Me examines how trauma can be inherited and how it s lingering aches can impact future generations."
The Middletown Press
"Real family letters from Nazi era heighten Send for Me... The Shorewood writer has fused her vocation and her legacy in a memorable way. Her historical novel Send for Me builds on those letters to portray four generations of women in a family ruptured by the Nazi regime... Relevant."
Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"A sense of foreboding shadows this bittersweet intergenerational tale of love and trauma... Subtle, striking, and punctuated by snippets of family letters.. Fox has imbued this deeply personal, ultimately hopeful novel, which she explains in an author s note is based on her own family s story, with emotion, empathy, and an essential understanding of the complicated bonds between generations and the importance of reckoning with the past in order to embrace the future.
An intimate, insightful, intricately rendered story of intergenerational trauma and love."
Kirkus, starred
"Fox deftly moves between generations as she illuminates the ways that choices echo through the lives of those who came after. This thoughtful, character-driven exploration of the unbreakable bonds of motherhood will appeal to fans of Alice Hoffman and Elizabeth Berg.
Booklist
Send For Me is a rare and beautiful novel. In luminous prose, with great economy and precision, Lauren Fox twines together two stories: one that explores both the menace and the day-to-day ordinariness of life in Germany under Hitler, and its aftermath, and one that captures the yearning and intensity of youth in the present day. While sorrow may be inevitable, Fox seems to say, life is also threaded with hope and joy and human connection. I loved this book.
Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train
"Send For Me is stunning in its tender poignancy. A beautifully told story of intergenerational loves and sorrows, the long shadow of memory, and how hope can repair the heartache woven into a family's DNA."
Jennifer Rosner, author of The Yellow Bird Sings
"Imbued with lyrical prose, Send For Me is a beautiful tale of heartbreak and renewal, and of the love and loss we carry with us, generation after generation."
Georgia Hunter, author of We Were the Lucky Ones
"Spanning generations and continents, from pre-WWII Germany to current day midwestern America, Send For Me is a richly imagined testament to the ties that bind: the intricate web of familial duty, the profound love between mothers and daughters, and the tension between honoring one's heritage while not being defined by it. Lauren Fox's first historical novel is moving, heartfelt, and filled with love."
Whitney Scharer, author of Age of Light
"Fox satisfyingly brings this story of love and desire full circle, as Clare and Ruth reflect on what it means to be both a mother and a child in the darkest of times. This tender and deeply inspired story will move readers."
Publishers Weekly
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