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Informationen zum Autor Joanna Hershon is the author Swimming and The Outside of August. Her short fiction has been published in One Story and The Virginia Quarterly Review. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the painter Derek Buckner, and their twin sons. Klappentext Berlin! 1861. Eva Frank! a sixteen-year-old Jewess! has her portrait painted! which leads to an indiscretion that has devastating consequences. Desperate to escape a painful situation! Eva marries Abraham Shein! an ambitious merchant who has returned home to Germany for the first time in a decade since establishing himself in the American West. The young bride leaves Berlin and its ghosts for an unfamiliar life halfway across the world! traversing the icy waters of the Atlantic and the rugged! sweeping terrain of the Santa Fe Trail. Though Eva's existence in the rough and burgeoning community of Sante Fe! New Mexico! is a far cry from her life as a daughter of privilege! she soon begins to settle into the mystifying town. But this new setting cannot keep at bay the overwhelming memories of her former life! nor can it protect her from an increasing threat to her own safety that will force Eva to make a fateful decision.
