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Fox, Lauren2022

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Germany 1930s. Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents' popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany. There are rumours that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, but Annelise and her parents can't believe it will affect them; they're not very religious. But as Annelise falls in love, marries and gives birth to her daughter Ruthie, the dangers grow closer: a brick thrown through her window; a friend who cuts ties with her; customers refusing to patronise 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, Ruthie's daughter and Annelise's granddaughter, Clare, is a young woman newly in love. But when she stumbles upon her grandmother's letters from Germany, she sees the history of her family's sacrifices in a new light.