Thomas Mann has lost his country, but in America he may finally have an audience willing to hear his warning about Hitler. With a major speech approaching at Madison Square Garden, he is ready to make the case for democracy. He is less ready to face what he left behind.
Years earlier, as Nazi officers raided the Mann family home, his friend Wolf helped Wolf’s daughter Marianne escape with Thomas’s private diaries. Wolf has spent years searching for her. Now a possible lead draws Thomas, Wolf, and Erika Mann toward a reunion in New York—where protesters are waiting for them, too.
Erika has spent her life helping her father reach the world. As she prepares to introduce him to thousands, she begins to question whether there is room beside his fame for her own work and identity.
Moving between the Mann family’s public fight against fascism and the secrets they guard from one another, Thomas Mann’s Lost Diariesexplores what exile takes from a family—and what it might allow them to become.
The Shape of Hope is a memoir about the unraveling of a marriage and the unexpected freedom that follows. When betrayal shatters the life she has spent decades building, a woman must confront not only the husband she thought she knew, but the ways she has disappeared inside the roles she chose. What begins as a desperate search for truth becomes a more profound reckoning with love, identity, and the cost of holding everything together. At once intimate, unsparing, and unexpectedly funny, The Shape of Hope explores what remains when a woman stops trying to save her marriage and begins saving herself.
Dynamite Secrets is a chapbook of poetry that exposes manipulation and the deception of romantic appearances, tracing a woman's journey from conditioned devotion to bodily autonomy and freedom.