A Dead Woman’s Memoir
In 1974, a German student, Ina Andreae, comes to Los Angeles to study — and, later, commits suicide. Fifty years later, her brother Wolfgang Andreae visits Deena Metzger, who was Ina’s teacher, to ask Deena what she knew of Ina. What follows from that alliance is this novella, a fiction that is not a fiction, an unfolding emergence of facts, events, and stories, showing us how wounds going back to Hitler still affect us, and their startling resemblance to the grim political dramas of today.
"…A heart-breaking, heart-enhancing ghost story of whirlwind proportions, an incantatory, ethical thriller masterfully rendered by one of our great contemporary visionaries." – Ariel Dorfman, author of Death and the Maiden and The Suicide Museum
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Learn more about Deena Metzger at deenametzger.net