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After living in America for many years, Kaethe Shalk returns to Berlin to search for the daughter she lost. Now in the metaphorical broken ground left by the demise of the Berlin Wall, she encounters the isolated parts of her past and present.
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"Johanna Ward narrates with sensitivity to Kaethe's nervous energy and anxieties. Ward's pace reflects the impatience of a mother who feels she has already missed too much and must act with dispatch to recover what she can of the past, but who finds it all fundamentally overwhelming."
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"Abounding in idealism, lust, betrayal, and re-emerging hope, this compelling portrait of a person whose life has been swept up in both the personal and the political realities of the Cold War is an eye-opener."
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"The art of this novel shines in its prose. A novel of mesmerizing power, Broken Ground tells a layered story of life's discord and counterpoint, set against a background of ruin and renewal."
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