Etta strives to protect him from the Nazi rule, even as her husband, Josef, becomes more nationalistic and impervious to Max's condition. When Max returns from the front, Etta quickly realizes that something is not right-he is thin, almost ghostly, and behaving very strangely. Etta, a mother from a small, rural town, has two sons serving their home country: her elder, Max, on the Eastern front, and her younger, Georg, at a school for Hitler Youth. Included in the New York Times Book Review's Summer Reading Guide for Historical Fiction "There was no shelter without her sons." In 1945, as the war in Germany nears its violent end, the Huber family is not yet free of its dangers or its insidious demands.
For readers of Warlight and The Invisible Bridge, an intimate, harrowing story about a family of German citizens during World War II.
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