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Lee Boudreaux Books
September 2016
On Sale: September 6, 2016
Featuring: Stasha; Pearl
352 pages
ISBN: 0316308102
EAN: 9780316308106
Kindle: B01B1W0L6I
Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical | Inspirational Historical
Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past. Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad. It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with
their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world,
Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical
natures, comforting themselves with the private language and
shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as
Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors
unknown to others, and they find themselves changed,
stripped of the personalities they once shared, their
identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. That winter, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele, Pearl
disappears. Stasha grieves for her twin, but clings to the
possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is
liberated by the Red Army, she and her companion Feliks--a
boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin--travel through
Poland's devastation. Undeterred by injury, starvation, or
the chaos around them, motivated by equal parts danger and
hope, they encounter hostile villagers, Jewish resistance
fighters, and fellow refugees, their quest enabled by the
notion that Mengele may be captured and brought to justice
within the ruins of the Warsaw Zoo. As the young survivors
discover what has become of the world, they must try to
imagine a future within it. A superbly crafted story, told in a voice as exquisite as it
is boundlessly original, MISCHLING defies every expectation,
traversing one of the darkest moments in human history to
show us the way toward ethereal beauty, moral reckoning, and
soaring hope.
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