Belonging:
A German Reckons with History and Home
Nora Krug
Scribner
2018, 288 pp., $30
All drawings by and photos courtesy of Amy Kurzweil, inspired by Nora Krug
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This is a brilliant review. Thank you for illuminating this book so well. We are talking about it at our next book club.