MOTHERLAND

Motherland by Fern Schumer Chapman - I inhaled this true story written by a daughter who accompanied her mom back to the mom's village in Germany more than 50 years after the mom was sent to America by her parents when she was 12 years old.  There are so many layers and parts and feelings in a story like this, and Fern Schumer Chapman hits on all of them.  Everyone is affected, and there are many perspectives for events like this.  It's a very similar story to my grandmother's refugee story, for what was Fern's mother but a refugee?  She was sent out of her country.  No one asked her whether she wanted to go.  Tonight I start Fern's second book.