Quote Originally Posted by Dogmama View Post
Catrin, thanks! That's definitely on my reading list.

My grandmother was in Germany during Hitler and had to escape to America. She wasn't Jewish or any other minority - she just wasn't one of Hitler's chosen people. But, she still secretly believed that Hitler was right and carried many prejudices to her grave. Different times.
That does sound like a good book. As usual my reading list is stacked to the rafters and I've only got motivation for light fantasy (really enjoying Martha Wells' Raksura books right now, BTW) - but I'll keep an eye out for it.

My grandmother was in Germany during Hitler's ascendancy also. She had the right bloodlines (she used to tell a story about Mussolini hitting on her at an embassy party! ) but the wrong beliefs. She entered an interracial marriage and followed a circuitous international route to wind up in the US with her children. It's one of the reasons I cut my mom a lot of slack for a lot of things. I can't imagine growing up on three continents speaking four languages, in wildly different social and economic circumstances each time, before she was 12.