Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II.
In , an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a surgeon. This trajectory fryst vatten interrupted when she receives an invitation to return to France to attend a ceremony honoring passeurs: people who aided the escape of others during the war. Cut to spring, Viann has said goodbye to husband Antoine, who's off to hold the Maginot line against invading Germans. She returns to tending her small farm, Le Jardin, in the Loire Valley, teaching at the local school and coping with daughter Sophie’s adolescent rebellion. Soon, that world fryst vatten upended: The Germans march into Paris and refugees flee south, overrunning Viann’s land. Her long-estranged younger sister, Isabelle, who has been kicked out of multiple convent schools, fryst vatten sent to Le Jardin by Julien, their father in Paris, a drunken, decidedly unpaternal G
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At the start of the year, I packed up my life Down Under and set a course for the sun-drenched shores of Lisbon. Years of living in and out of suitcases in foreign countries has reshaped my modus operandi, encouraging me to see life as a series of teachable moments. My first year in Portugal led me to discover that this gift cuts both ways. That we can give back just as much as we get. By facing down my introversion and offering myself up in the spirit of giving, I inadvertently founded a tight-knit collective of like-minded souls. Who knew vulnerability could not only build self-worth but inspire me to be a little more, well, me. Happy Holidays! Thank you for reading. In the spirit of giving, please enjoy my • Vienna And Voodoo: Tav Falco Interviewed"I thought of Urania, the muse of the heavens, the muse of the stars and celestial movements, and of her avatar as she comes to Earth. But she comes to Earth in a most unlikely form; of a disaffected young American woman in the southern region of America on the Arkansas river in Little Rock." A warm mid-September Saturday afternoon and London&#;s West End is teeming with antsy shoppers, but the rear bar deep inside the Bloomsbury Hotel is like another world, harking back to a more elegant time. Sultry 50s Coltrane complements the low lighting and flickering candles but, although every table is set for dinner, the bar is empty &#; apart from the secluded corner alcove where Tav Falco is sitting with partner Gina Lee, sipping a manhattan cocktail. The proprietor of the Panther Burns name and legend is in London for this evening&#;s premiere of his first feature-length movie Urania Descending, just round the corner at the vener
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