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Finalist for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Longlisted for the PEN/Hemmingway Award for Debut Novel A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 at O, The Oprah Magazine, Refinery29, and The Millions One of Goodreads' 75 Debut Novels to Discover in 2021 One of The Advocate's 22 LGBTQ+ Books You Absolutely Need to Read This Year

A wonderful, immersive debut novel . . . In Grattan's hands, life's joys are magnetic. Patrick Nathan, The New York Times Book Review

An extraordinary family saga following a mother and two teens as they navigate a new life in East Germany.

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Beate Haas, who defected from East Germany as a child, is notified that her parents' abandoned mansion is available for her to reclaim. Newly divorced and eager to escape her bleak life in upstate New York,

The Recent East

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      Publisher: St Martin's Press
      Publication Date: 25/01/2022
      ISBN13: 9781250829580, 978-1250829580
      ISBN10: 1250829585

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Finalist for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Longlisted for the PEN/Hemmingway Award for Debut Novel A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 at O, The Oprah Magazine, Refinery29, and The Millions One of Goodreads' 75 Debut Novels to Discover in 2021 One of The Advocate's 22 LGBTQ+ Books You Absolutely Need to Read This Year

      A wonderful, immersive debut novel . . . In Grattan's hands, life's joys are magnetic. Patrick Nathan, The New York Times Book Review

      An extraordinary family saga following a mother and two teens as they navigate a new life in East Germany.

      Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Beate Haas, who defected from East Germany as a child, is notified that her parents' abandoned mansion is available for her to reclaim. Newly divorced and eager to escape her bleak life in upstate New York,

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