What Remains at the End --- @afordwrites @SerenBooks @LoveBooksGroup
Blurb
Marie Kohler’s grandparents rarely spoke about their past, and now with the chance of
finding out the truth growing slimmer by the day, she travels to Europe to discover
what really happened. She uncovers an area of history forgotten by time and concealed
by unspoken truths. But how can what has been lost for so long be recovered in the face
of so many secrets?
finding out the truth growing slimmer by the day, she travels to Europe to discover
what really happened. She uncovers an area of history forgotten by time and concealed
by unspoken truths. But how can what has been lost for so long be recovered in the face
of so many secrets?
In the aftermath of World War II, hundreds of thousands of Yugoslavia’s ethnic Germans, the
Danube Swabians, were expelled by Tito’s Partisan regime. A further sixty-thousand were
killed.
Seventy years later, Marie Kohler’s marriage is falling apart. She’s seeing someone new, an
enigmatic man named David, who takes her to the former Yugoslavia to find the truth behind
her grandparents’ flight to America.
Alternating between the late 1940s and contemporary Serbia, Marie’s story is interwoven
with those of Tito’s victims—a young survivor who has lost his mother and his identity, a
woman held captive in a sugar factory, a refugee girl living in Austria under the din of air
raid sirens. Her journey follows the Danube in search of connection in the face of loss.
Connection to the lost souls, to the memory of her grandfather, to the man beside her, to her
grandmother suffering from Alzheimer’s back home.
What Remains at the End sheds light on a largely undocumented history that led to the ethnic
cleansing of tens of thousands of Germans at the end of World War II. A story of war and
suffering, of loss and the search for connection and identity, it is a heart-wrenching and
important debut from Alexandra Ford.
Alexandra Ford
Alexandra Ford was born near Philadelphia. She earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and her BA from Virginia Tech. Her writing appears in The Rumpus and No Tokens Journal, among others. She lives on a smallholding on the border between England and Wales. Her first novel What Remains at the End is available now.
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