Fiction Book Discussion

Please join us for a discussion of The Living and the Lost by Ellen Feldman on Tuesday April 26th at 7:30 p.m. Millie Mosbach and her brother David, manage to escape to the States just before Kristallnacht, leaving their parents and little sister in Berlin. Millie attends Bryn Mawr on a special scholarship for non-Aryan German girls and graduates to a magazine job in Philadelphia. David enlists in the army and is eventually posted to the top-secret Camp Ritchie in Maryland, which trains German-speaking men for intelligence work. Now they are both back in their former hometown, haunted by ghosts and hoping against hope to find their family. Millie, works in the office responsible for rooting out the most dedicated Nazis from publishing; she is consumed with rage at her former country and its citizens, though she is finding it more difficult to hate in proximity. David works trying to help displaced persons build new lives, while hiding his more radical nighttime activities from his sister. Living and working in bombed-out Berlin, a latter day Wild West where drunken soldiers brawl; the desperate prey on the unsuspecting; spies ply their trade; werewolves, as unrepentant Nazis were called, scheme to rise again; black markets thrive, and forbidden fraternization is rampant, Millie must come to terms with a decision she made as a girl in a moment of crisis. The Living and the Lost is the [2022 Long Island Reads](https://longislandreads.wordpress.com/) selection. Copies of the book are available on Libby and may also be reserved for pickup at the library. Please note that this will be a hybrid event. Participants are invited to join us in person or via zoom. Click [HERE] to receive the zoom meeting link if participating remotely. In person participants can register [HERE]