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A family story spanning two world wars and several generations in a German family centers on Helene, a woman who must make the most of a tumultuous time, in a book that reveals the scope of German citizens' denial--or "blindness of the heart"--as a survival mechanism during World War II.
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Utina, Florida, is a small, down-at-the-heels southern town. Once enlivened by the trade in Palm Sunday palms and moonshine, Utina hasn't seen economic growth in decades, and no family is more emblematic of the local reality than the Bravos. Deserted by the patriarch years ago, the Bravos are held together in equal measure by love, unspoken blame, and tenuously brokered truces. The story opens on a sweltering July day, as Frank Bravo, dutiful middle...
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