When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. I didn't want to.my ephebeophile mother's long, long, long shadow over my life, her dead hands on my emotional neck still tightening spasmodically should I dare for a moment to forget to be unhappy, gave me a terrible and utter avoidance complex for this story.ĭoes everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. When I won this from, I think, a website now long gone's giveaway, I was under no obligation to review it.
My Review: Another read I fastened on as I got my Little Free Library bag ready to go. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.
#Sauced bbq and spirits trial#
When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. In time she becomes his lover-then she inexplicably disappears. When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age.
The Publisher Says: Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.
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