ASIN: B008TDAS52
Publisher: Vital Originals
Pages: 410
The year is 1945 and Lisa Zimmerman, an Austrian American, has survived WWII as a prostitute on the front lines. Lisa returns to her hometown of Vienna to find her mother on her deathbed; she soon discovers that her mother has kept her young daughter alive in a closet for the whole of the war. Enticed by letters from an aunt in Vermont and the possible inheritance of a house, Lisa absconds to America with the traumatized child to begin again.In Vermont, Lisa and her daughter stumble on an unlikely troupe of characters: an invalid aunt with a preacher’s tongue who is seeking a caretaker, and Henry, a middle-aged street performer who strikes Lisa as a poor version of Charlie Chaplin. Together they attempt to create the semblance of a family life while trying to teach the child how to speak and behave. However, Lisa continues to be haunted by her past on the front lines and a love ...
