![]() Grab your copy and register in advance for our live virtual author event on October 5. Meanwhile, Georg takes his fate into his own hands and deserts, setting off on a perilous journey home.īeginning Monday, September 20, all library locations will give away promotional copies of both books while supplies last. Etta strives to protect Max from Nazi rule, even as her husband, becomes more nationalistic. When Max returns, Etta realizes something isn’t right-he's thin, almost ghostly, and behaving strangely. Etta has two sons serving their home country: her elder, Max, on the Eastern front, and her younger, Georg, at a school for Hitler Youth. In 1945, as the war in Germany nears its end, the Huber family is not yet free of its dangers or its insidious demands. The Spiral Shell’s narrative unfolds and overlaps both past and present, uncovering long-silenced stories of bravery and resistance among the civilians in a small town in France during World War II, bringing Morse to an understanding of her own Jewish heritage and history denied in her childhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() Annette Binder and Sandell Morse on Tuesday, October 5 at 6:30 pm! The Vanishing Sky is a World War II story through a German lens, telling of the irreparable damage of war on the home front, inspired by Binder’s own father’s time in the Hitler Youth. San Mateo County Libraries is excited to host a conversation between L. ![]()
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