Fraulein M.

In this multilayered historical novel set in 1930s Berlin and spanning to the United States in the 1970s, hidden identities and family secrets collide as the Weimar Republic’s cabaret scene meets Nazi Germany’s ruthless rise to power.

Berlin, 1931: Sisters raised in a Catholic orphanage, Berni and Grete Metzger are each other's whole world. That is, until life propels them to opposite sides of seedy, splendid, and violent Weimar Berlin. Berni becomes a cigarette girl, a denizen of the cabare...