USA TODAYย BESTSELLER โขย โSearing . . . a heartbreaking page-turner.โโPeople
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โBoth heartbreaking and hopeful, this story of a daughter searching for the truth about her motherโs secret past, tangled up in old secrets and terrible lies, kept me up late turning pages.โโMartha Hall Kelly, bestselling author ofย Lilac Girls
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE
Once inseparable, Berlin teenagers Ilse Fischer and Renate Bauer find their friendship ripped apart by their nationโs 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 Hitlerโs race laws and then shattered by a shocking betrayal. Decades later, that same betrayal will upend the life of Ilseโs daughter, Ava, as she discovers long-buried truths about her motherโs past. A harrowing page-turner, Wunderland traces the lives of three women across two generationsโand the devastating repercussions of choices made in the dark days of wartime Germany.
Praise for Wunderland
โEngrossing . . . Epstein reveals the devastating choices these women make.โโReal Simple
โWunderlandย is both an engrossing family drama and a foray into a dark period of history . . . a wholly original angle to the WWII novel. Youโll read it in one shivered sitting.โโRefinery29
โA vividly written and stark chronicle of Nazism and its legacies.โโKirkus Reviewsย (starred review)
โA wealth of history turnsย Wunderlandย into a novel thatโs 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.โโBookPageย (starred review)
โ[A] heartbreaking historical tour de force . . . Manโs inhumanity to manโand the redemptive power of forgivenessโis on stark and effective display in Epsteinโs gripping novel, a devastating tale bound for bestseller lists.โโPublishers Weeklyย (starred review)