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A young woman attends a play about the Berlin Wall coming down and is the only Black person in the audience. She is sat with her boyfriend by a bathing lake and four neo-Nazis show up. In New York, she witnesses Trump's election victory in a strange hotel room and later awakes to panicked messages from friends. Engaging in a witty question and answer with herself, the narrator looks at our rapidly changing times and tells the story of her family: her mother, who was a punk in East Germany and never had the freedom she dreamed of; her absent Angolan father; and, in the background of it all, the memory of her twin brother, who died when they were nineteen.
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1000 Coils of Fear, Olivia Wenzel
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- Released
- 2023
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- Title
- 1000 Coils of Fear
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Olivia Wenzel
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Released
- 2023
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0349702004
- ISBN13
- 9780349702001
- Series
- Tags
- Love, Family, Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, German Literature, Germany, LGBTQ+, Loss, Race, Racism, Mothers, Suicide, German Democratic Republic, Brothers, Debut, Discrimination
- First published
- 2020
- Original title
- 1000 Serpentinen Angst
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- A young woman attends a play about the Berlin Wall coming down and is the only Black person in the audience. She is sat with her boyfriend by a bathing lake and four neo-Nazis show up. In New York, she witnesses Trump's election victory in a strange hotel room and later awakes to panicked messages from friends. Engaging in a witty question and answer with herself, the narrator looks at our rapidly changing times and tells the story of her family: her mother, who was a punk in East Germany and never had the freedom she dreamed of; her absent Angolan father; and, in the background of it all, the memory of her twin brother, who died when they were nineteen.