Title: The deadwood beetle
First published: 2001
Description: "Tristan Martens, a retired entomologist, is shaken by the discovery of his mother's sewing table in a New York antique shop. He hasn't seen it since he was a boy in Holland, but he vividly remembers the last time he did. Only Tristan knows the painful truth behind the scrawled - and misunderstood - inscription on the bottom of the table, and he embarks on a scheme to acquire it from the shop owner, Cora Lowenstein, who insists it's not for sale.".

"But as their lives become entangled, Tristan must make a choice. Can he tell Cora the truth? Begun in deceit, their relationship and Tristan's salvation hinge on his willingness to confront and finally confess the terrible secrets of his family's past."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Dutch Americans, Retirement, Reminiscing in old age, Fiction, College teachers, Retirees, History, Large type books, College teachers, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, psychological, Netherlands, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Netherlands, New York (N.Y.)
Time periods: German occupation, 1940-1945