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USA TODAY BESTSELLER - "Searing . . . a heartbreaking page-turner."--People "Both heartbreaking and hopeful, this story of a daughter searching for the truth about her mother's secret past, tangled up in old secrets and terrible lies, kept me up late turning pages."--Martha Hall Kelly, bestselling author of Lilac Girls Once inseparable, Berlin teenagers Ilse Fischer and Renate Bauer find their friendship ripped apart by their nation's abrupt swing into fascism. Ilse, a so-called Aryan, throws her lot in with the Nazi Party, while Renate sees her once-secure world dismantled by Adolf Hitler's race laws and then shattered by a shocking betrayal. Decades later, that same betrayal will upend the life of Ilse's daughter, Ava, as she discovers long-buried truths about her mother's past. A harrowing page-turner, Wunderland traces the lives of three women across two generations--and the devastating repercussions of choices made in the dark days of wartime Germany. Praise for Wunderland "Engrossing . . . Epstein reveals the devastating choices these women make."--Real Simple "Wunderland is both an engrossing family drama and a foray into a dark period of history . . . a wholly original angle to the WWII novel. You'll read it in one shivered sitting."--Refinery29 "A vividly written and stark chronicle of Nazism and its legacies."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A wealth of history turns Wunderland into a novel that's both beautiful and devastating. . . . Epstein taps into the 1930s prewar era, laying out an unsparing narrative that details tragic events and horrifying legacies . . . opening a new door that may lead to redemption and joy for future generations."--BookPage (starred review) "[A] heartbreaking historical tour de force . . . Man's inhumanity to man--and the redemptive power of forgiveness--is on stark and effective display in Epstein's gripping novel, a devastating tale bound for bestseller lists."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
