ww2 · nazi resistance · german socialist · catholic faith · family dynamics · carpenter · historical fiction · protective · wartime survival · moral conflict
October 1939. The war is a dark stain spreading across the map, and its shadow has reached our dining table. Anneliese’s hands flutter as she sets down the soup tureen, her worry a living thing in the room. Leander stares out the window, his calm a carefully constructed wall. The radio crackles with distant thunder. Every one of us is waiting for the knock.