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Apr 13, 2021 | ISBN 9781641292221 Pre-Order
Apr 13, 2021 | ISBN 9781641292238 Pre-Order
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Apr 13, 2021 | ISBN 9781641292221
Apr 13, 2021 | ISBN 9781641292238
The story of a woman in Berlin and her American niece, a pair 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 living in poverty in a slum-like apartment block, makes it through her day on a combination of stimulants and sleeping pills, wine and brandy. She waits for visits from her married lover and makes occasional attempts at contact with her distant daughter. Her friendly teenaged neighbor is her closest companion. Then her American niece, Maggie, arrives in Berlin. Eva is thrilled. 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 history and German history, estrangement, joys, and disappointments. It is a portrait of East Berlin in the years after the wall came down, and a story of a family torn apart by personalities, histories, and addictions. It is the finest book yet from Paula Bomer, an author whose work Jonathon Franzen describes as “some of the rawest and most urgent writing I can remember encountering.”
Praise for Paula Bomer “Phenomenal.” —The Atlantic “Dark, sharp, and hilarious.” —New York Magazine “Deliciously, dangerously rogue.” —Marcy Dermansky “A brave and provocative book . . . An instant classic.” —The Guardian “Brilliant, brutally raw.” —O Magazine “Bomer flays the idea of happy little families . . . Not one to share with the Mommy and Me group.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
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