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THE RECENT EAST - THOMAS GRATTAN GEBUNDEN

FINALIST FOR THE 2022 LA TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN
HEMMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT NOVEL. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. A wonderful 
immersive debut novel . . . in [Thomas] Grattan's hands  life's joys are magnetic. --Patrick
Nathan  The New York Times Book Review An extraordinary family saga following a mother and two
teens as they navigate a new life in East GermanyShortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall 
Beate Haas  who defected from East Germany as a child  is notified that her parents' abandoned
mansion is available for her to reclaim. Newly divorced and eager to escape her bleak life in
upstate New York  where she moved as an adult  she arrives with her two teenagers to discover a
city that has become an unrecognizable ghost town. The move fractures the siblings' close
relationship  as Michael  free to be gay  takes to looting empty houses and partying with
wannabe anarchists  while Adela  fascinated with the horrors of the Holocaust  buries herself
in books and finds companionship in a previously unknown cousin. Over time  the town itself
changes-from dismantled city to refugee haven and neo-Nazi hotbed  and eventually to a
desirable seaside resort town. In the midst of that change  two episodes of devastating 
fateful violence come to define the family forever. Moving seamlessly through decades and
between the thoughts and lives of several unforgettable characters  Thomas Grattan's
spellbinding novel is a multigenerational epic that illuminates what it means to leave home 
and what it means to return. Masterfully crafted with humor  gorgeous prose  and a powerful
understanding of history and heritage  The Recent East is the profoundly affecting story of a
family upended by displacement and loss  and the extraordinary debut of an empathetic and
ambitious storyteller.

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