Broken Ground

Kaethe is in Berlin searching for her estranged and currently missing daughter Sophie. What seems like a search for Sophie, however, quickly becomes a search for Kaethe: is she American or German, East German or West; is her truth in the past, present or future? She is divorced from Sophie’s father,......more

We've all read the accounts of life in East Berlin, but Broken Ground humanizes it and personalizes it in a way that makes you feel like what life must have been like there for millions, and how difficult it must have been to adjust to the new reality. She does this through the eyes of two character......more

When I think about the things I liked and didn't like about this book (the story of a German woman who spends her life crossing familial, national and political borders, with deep personal consequences), I almost feel like I'm sitting in a workshop hearing a critique of my own writing: The language......more

Interesting glimpses into life in Berlin, but it struggled to keep my attention.......more

Smutty book.......more