num_pages: 152
description: Writing from America to her sister in Germany, the protagonist of this shattering first novel reconstructs the life of her parents—in the author’s words, “just those ‘ordinary people’ who helped Hitler rise.” Unflinching in her appraisal, she imagines how her father’s latent anti-Semitism was triggered by his wife’s affair with a Jew, who was later sent to a concentration camp. The tone darkens as the narrator realizes that she and her sisters are living out variants of their mother’s sexual model.
language: English
title: The Hanky of Pippin's Daughter
titlecomplete: The Hanky of Pippin's Daughter
genres: Fiction, Germany, War, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 71
publisher: Station Hill Press