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Motherland

Hummel, Maria. (Author).

Summary: To provide for his children after being drafted into military service, surgeon Frank Kappus, a recent widower, marries a young woman who struggles to keep one of the children from being declared mentally unfit.

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  • ISBN: 9781619022379 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: print
    375 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, [2014]
Subject: Widowers -- Fiction
Draftees -- Fiction
Remarriage -- Fiction
Stepmothers -- Fiction
Families -- Germany -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Fiction
Family secrets -- Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.

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Maria Hummel is the author of the novel Wilderness Run and of House and Fire (Copper Canyon, 2013), winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize in poetry. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Ploughshares, The Sun, and The Believer. Her work was also featured in the 2012 Pushcart Prize anthology, and she was a finalist in Narrative’s Second Annual Poetry Contest. A former Stegner Fellow in poetry, Hummel lives with her husband and sons in San Francisco and is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.

Maria Hummel is a novelist and poet. Her most recent novel, Still Lives, was a Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club pick, Book of the Month Club pick, and BBC Culture Best Book of 2018, and has been optioned for television and translated into multiple languages. She is also the author of Motherland, a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year; and House and Fire, winner of the APR/Honickman Poetry Prize. She has worked and taught at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Stanford University; and the University of Vermont. She lives in Vermont with her husband and sons.


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