Even in Darkness
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Winner of two INDIEFAB prizes: Gold for Literary Fiction and Bronze for Historical Fiction
Readers' Favorite Gold medal for Literary fiction
Spanning a century and three continents, Even in Darkness tells the story of Klare Kohler, whose early years as a beloved daughter of a prosperous German-Jewish family hardly anticipate…
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1 author picked Even in Darkness as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is the most recently written book of my picks, and one with which I have much in common. I first came in contact with the author through her search for a relative on Geni.com, a website on which I serve as a volunteer curator, and it turned out that she and I are distant relatives! But it didn’t end there: Barbara and I have the same publisher (She Writes Press). The names of her main character (Kläre) and mine (Klara) are practically identical. She and I both cite a horrendous chant hurled by Nazi Brown Shirts, illustrating the terror…
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