Wunderland

"East Village 1989 Things had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother Ilse. Too many questions hovered between them: Who was Ava's father? Where had Ilse been during the war? Why had she left her only child in a German orphanage during the war's final months? But now Ilse's ashes have arrived from Germany and with them a trove of unsent letters addressed to someone else unknown to Ava: Renate Bauer a childhood friend. As her mother's letters unfurl a dark past Ava spirals deep into the shocking history of a woman she never truly knew. Berlin 1933 As the Nazi party tightens its grip on the city Ilse and Renate find their friendship under siege--and Ilse's increasing involvement in the Hitler Youth movement leaves them on opposing sides of the gathering storm. Then the Nuremburg Laws force Renate to confront a long-buried past and a catastrophic betrayal is set in motion... An unflinching exploration of Nazi Germany and its legacy Wunderland is a at once a powerful portrait of an unspeakable crime history and a page-turning contemplation of womanhood wartime and just how far we might go in order to belong."--