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by Katherine Bryant (Author)
"Set against the glittering decadence and impending doom of Weimar Germany, Give My Love to Berlin chronicles a forgotten chapter of LGBTQ history with remarkable depth and humanity. Katherine Bryant has crafted a heart-wrenching and unforgettable tale of forbidden love and moral defiance, offering readers a glimpse of beauty and brutality and reminding us of love's endurance through history's darkest chapters.
- Paul Levine, bestselling author of the Jack Lassiter series and the Solomon vs. Lord series
"A moving story about ordinary people caught up in historic events, with devastating results. It is poignant and disturbing, with chilling parallels to our own time. Katherine Bryant's debut will stir your anger and touch your heart."- Al Pessin, multi-award-winning author of the international spy thrillers, Sandblast, Blowback, and Shockwave.
Give My Love to Berlin follows the lives of two gay couples in the late 1920's Weimar Republic as it slowly gives way to the Nazi's Third Reich and one young woman in America in the 1990s where she grapples with the onset of her grandmother's dementia and discovers secrets her grandmother kept hidden for decades.
In 1920s Germany, Tillie and Ruth and their best friends, James and Ernesto, navigate falling in love, thriving in their community, and coming to terms with the danger they're in just by being who they are, even as Tillie watches her father, a prominent lawyer, become more and more entrenched in the Nazi Party. Ruth, a performer at one of the nightclubs in the city and Tillie, working in her father's law office where she meets Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring, become convinced that her and her friends' lives are in danger as the Nazis take over Berlin one neighborhood at a time.
Decades later in America, the shocking truth about Tillie, Ruth, James, and Ernesto and life under the deadly specter of hate and bigotry is finally revealed as a timely story about love, sacrifice, and the choices one must make in the face of danger.
Author Biography
As the mother of a non-binary gay child, the author became increasingly interested in LGBTQ history, and in particular, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld and The Institute of Sexual Science in Berlin. Tillie, Ruth, James, and Ernesto came to life as she studied the Nazi destruction of The Institute of Sexual Science and their burning of all of Dr. Hirschfeld's research on the LGBTQ community members of Berlin and the surrounding areas. This is her debut novel.
