What Fiction are you reading this week, August 7, 2022?

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2. A Model Childhood

by Christa Wolf.

A German woman revisits her childhood under the Nazi regime, including the time of her family's flight as refugees as the Soviet army draws close to their home in east Prussia. Years later she travels to her childhood home--now a part of Poland--and tries to separate reality from fantasy and to understand the actions of the adults around her, including her parents, during this time.

This is my quick take for now. I'm only sixty pages into it, another 350 some odd to go.

The writing is dense, and the writer does an incredible job taking us into the internal life of this intelligent and deeply thoughtful little girl as she tries to make sense of a world filled with monstrous acts and horrible secrets.