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You may rewrite history, but only the truth can save you.London, 1930. As young Bridget’s German immigrant mother deteriorates in a locked bedchamber, she resents her scholarly father’s control and exploitation. Failing to escape him as a liar and a thief, she finds herself abruptly disowned.Alpine Bavaria, 1936. Travel to the Winter Olympiad offers a handsome German officer and an idealized cause as “Gitta,” a Nazi nurse, wife and mother. Yet, after the Reich, after everything burns, even new loves and a grounded homeland in America can’t reverse the tide of Bridget’s youthful complicity with Nazi eugenics.Darkwater Creek, Nebraska, 1968. Civil unrest and assassinations fuel Bridget’s regrets. As she denies and conceals a legacy of murder and family devastation, accelerating symptoms warn that her mother’s genetic disease is also her own.When a roadside explosion of family violence propels Bridget to her farmhouse cellar for refuge, she finds a tattered ledger, long since abandoned by a farmer named Laura. Here she aligns the perfect confession and collaboration; resolved to alter the surge of history, Bridget reclaims her memories and calculates her receipts, before yet another person dies on her account.*This edition includes a bonus True to Story reading guide for individuals and book clubs.
