Fiction

This book won all kinds of awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award and The Chautauqua Prize. It is the biography of a real person, Mildred Harnack, written by her great-great-niece but contains a lot of family lore so could be considered historical fiction. Fascinating, indeed.

"As early as 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment—a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler's regime."