num_pages: 193
description: Nell Zinks debut novel follows a downwardly mobile secretary from Philadelphia who marries an ambitious soon-to-be-expat pharmaceutical researcher in hopes that she will never work again. They end up in Germany where it turns out that her new husband is tougher sneakier more sincere more contradictory and smarter than she is; shed naturally thought it was impossible. Life becomes complicated with affairs birding and eco-terrorism. Bad things happen yet they stagger through clinging to each other from a safe distance.
language: English
title: The Wallcreeper
publisher: Dorothy, a publishing project