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Torn Between Homes
Paperback
Publisher Price: $15.99
ISBN13: 9781069931719
Publisher: Bridges
Published: Dec 20 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Set in postwar Germany, Torn Between Homes traces an immigrant woman's growing isolation until a fight by the Rhine makes her question her choices, and changes everything.
In 1993/94 Mainz, nearly fifty years after the Second World War, the city is still haunted by its memory. When Ifeoma arrives with her young son, the joy of reunion with her husband gradually gives way to unease. Germany turns out to be colder than they thought, and not just in winter. People look through them. They never quite fit.
Her husband is rarely home and Ifeoma has no one. The loneliness wears her down gradually, until she almost breaks.
Torn Between Homes is a novel about an immigrant marriage strained by a new country that won't make room and an old one can't be returned to.
Torn Between Homes is a poignant and deeply human novel that explores the unraveling of identity, belonging, and love in postwar Germany, offering readers a hauntingly beautiful story of migration and one woman's search for home in a world still learning how to heal. - NewInBooks
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