One evening in Germany in the late 1980s, a mother and her two children sit around the dinner table, expecting the father home from a business trip any minute. As time passes, the teenage daughter ponders her family and her childhood, and slowly reveals the ugly truth behind the facade of a normal family life. This is a short book that functions on two levels. On the surface, it is the portrait of a family that looks rather ordinary at first glance, but the more […]