Send for Me
- Author Lauren Fox
- Narrator Natasha Soudek
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Run Time 7 hours and 9 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Adventure fiction, Historical fiction, Religious and spiritual fiction, Second World War fiction.
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What to expect
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 family
Annelise 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 a major departure for this acclaimed author, an epic and intimate exploration of mothers and daughters, duty and obligation, hope and forgiveness.
Critics Review
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“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
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