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Reviewed on January 13, 2023 | Fiction
Labuskes's fifth stand-alone novel (following Her Final Words) plunges into human relationships and pushes her characters to do not what is easy but what is right. In 1933, young U.S. novelist Althea James visits Berlin on a Nazi exchange program. Enchanted by German nationalism, she attends official events, but for off-hours fun she relies on flirtatious Hannah Brecht. Together they visit Berlin's nightclubs, hotbeds of sex and politics where Althea wakens to her sensual...Log In or Sign Up to Read More