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Melanie O'Loughlin of Lamplight Books Auckland reviews The Recent East by Thomas Grattan, published by Macmillan
Its 1989, the Berlin Wall is freshly down when an East German defector receives news that the family home she fled as a child has now been restored to her. Taking her children from New York to a seaside town in Germany, this transnational novel bursts with unique characters and tackles refuge, belonging and family love.
Characters in “The Recent East” are individual riddles, not just political integers. Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker.
