Send for Me, Lauren Fox
Send for Me, Lauren Fox
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Send for Me

Bestseller

Author: Lauren Fox

Narrator: Natasha Soudek

Unabridged: 7 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/02/2021

Synopsis

An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction that moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling a thread of love, longing, and the powerful bonds of familyAnnelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents’ popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the delicious possibilities yet to come. There are rumors that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, but Annelise and her parents can’t quite believe that it will affect them; they’re hardly religious at all.But as Annelise falls in love, marries, and gives birth to her daughter, the dangers grow closer: a brick thrown through her window; a childhood friend who cuts ties with her; customers refusing to patronize the bakery. Luckily Annelise and her husband are given the chance to leave for America, but they must go without her parents, whose future and safety are uncertain.Two generations later, in a small Midwestern city, Annelise’s granddaughter, Clare, is a young woman newly in love. But when she stumbles upon a trove of her grandmother’s letters from Germany, she sees the history of her family’s sacrifices in a new light, and suddenly she’s faced with an impossible choice: the past, or her future.A novel of dazzling emotional richness, Send for Me is an epic and intimate exploration of mothers and daughters, duty and obligation, hope and forgiveness.

About Lauren Fox

Lauren Fox is the author of four novels, including Send for Me, which was named a best book of the year by the New York Times and Parade magazine. She earned her MFA degree from the University of Minnesota, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, Marie Claire, Seventeen, Glamour, and Salon.

About Natasha Soudek

If you've watched TV at all in the past ten years, you've definitely seen her face and heard her voice countless times in any number of wildly successful national, global, and Super Bowl commercials, as well as playing the first blond Vulcan in Star Trek history. The daughter of two English professors, Natasha Soudek was raised in the South, speaks native German, lived in Berlin and Vienna, and finally settled in the Lower East Side of New York City as a teenager. After honing her stage presence by studying acting and playing hundreds of sold-out live music shows (singing and playing bass), she moved to LA to record with Channel/DreamWorks and act on TV. Favored on KCRW, Chris Douridas compared her voice and songwriting to the Beatles' Let it Be in meaning and soulfulness . . . qualities that translate especially well into her career as an audiobook narrator. Her voice is as distinct and memorable as the range of characters she's played on-screen, which gives listeners an immediate familiarity to connect to, along with a warmth and intimacy that spans and uplifts any genre.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Regina

You know the blueprint by now. WWII historical fiction. Alternating timelines that weave between characters in war-torn Europe and their grandchild(ren) in the present. Said grandchild stumbles upon something that makes her want to connect more with that lineage. And there you have the basic structu......more

Goodreads review by Michelle

The premise of the story was good. The story jumped around and then abruptly ended. I want to like the book, but it is so unfinished.......more

Goodreads review by Michelle

This book went off in so many directions that I’m not sure what the plot was. It also jumped between timelines way too much to even understand when and where we were located. Instead of being split into chapters with dates and characters labeled so that the reader doesn’t struggle it was separated i......more

Quotes

“Reads like a memoir but has the kind of intimate detail born in the imagination of a novelist at the top of her game.” People

“Beautifully written, deeply felt…[a] vivid depiction of a family’s heartbreak, its rending and rebuilding.” New York Times Book Review

“Real family letters from Nazi era heighten Send for Me…to portray four generations of women in a family ruptured by the Nazi regime.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

 “An artfully constructed and richly absorbing novel that shows how love is strengthened, not weakened, over distance and time.” Minneapolis Star-Tribune

“An intimate, insightful, intricately rendered story of intergenerational trauma and love.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Fox satisfyingly brings this story of love and desire full circle, as Clare and Ruth reflect on what it means to be both a mother and a child in the darkest of times…Tender and deeply inspired.” Publishers Weekly

“This thoughtful, character-driven exploration of the unbreakable bonds of motherhood will appeal to fans of Alice Hoffman and Elizabeth Berg.” Booklist

“A beautifully told story of intergenerational loves and sorrows, the long shadow of memory, and how hope can repair the heartache woven into a family’s DNA.” Jennifer Rosner, author of The Yellow Bird Sings

“Moving, heartfelt, and filled with love.” Whitney Scharer, author of Age of Light

Awards

  • Today Show Pick
  • Indie Next List
  • Parade Magazine Pick
  • New York Times Notable Book
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