Come by and pick up a copy of
City of Women by David R. Gillham for our discussion on
Wednesday October 22nd at 1pm. We'll meet by the fireplace.
Whom do you trust, whom do you love, and who can be saved?
It is 1943—the height of the Second World War—and Berlin has essentially become a city of women.
Sigrid Schröder is, for all intents and purposes, the model German
soldier’s wife: She goes to work every day, does as much with her
rations as she can, and dutifully cares for her meddling mother-in-law,
all the while ignoring the horrific immoralities of the regime. But
behind this façade is an entirely different Sigrid, a woman who dreams
of her former lover, now lost in the chaos of the war. Her lover is a
Jew.
But Sigrid is not the only one with secrets.
A
high ranking SS officer and his family move down the hall and Sigrid
finds herself pulled into their orbit. A young woman doing her
duty-year is out of excuses before Sigrid can even ask her any
questions. And then there’s the blind man selling pencils on the
corner, whose eyes Sigrid can feel following her from behind the
darkness of his goggles.
Soon Sigrid is embroiled in a world she
knew nothing about, and as her eyes open to the reality around her, the
carefully constructed fortress of solitude she has built over the years
begins to collapse. She must choose to act on what is right and what is
wrong, and what falls somewhere in the shadows between the two.
In
this page-turning novel, David Gillham explores what happens to
ordinary people thrust into extraordinary times, and how the choices
they make can be the difference between life and death. ---goodreads.com
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