![]() ![]() A beautiful story of survival, love, and forgiveness. Shattuck’s own German heritage and knack for historical details adds to the realism of the tale. The quotidian focus of the story, falling on the period just after the war, provides a unique glimpse into what the average German was and was not aware of during World War II’s darkest months. Shattuck’s latest has an intricately woven narrative with frequent plot twists that will shock and please. As new chapters in their lives are written, the women come to rely on each other as a makeshift family-much as the entire country, reeling after the horrors of the war, must imagine a new future and forge a new identity. ![]() Seeking safety in numbers after the death of husbands, Marianne invites Benita to live with her-as well as another widow, Ania, and her two sons. At the outset of the war she had promised her friend, another resister, that she would watch over his wife Benita and their child if anything happened to him. 6 Works edit The Hazards of Good Breeding, New York: W.W. 4 Life edit Shattuck graduated from Harvard University in 1994, 3 5 and received her MFA from Columbia University in 2001. Marianne von Lingenfels, whose husband was one of many resisters murdered in a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler, returns to the beautiful but dilapidated Bavarian castle, Burg Lingenfels, as the war comes to an end. Her third novel, The Women in the Castle (2017), became a New York Times best seller. Shattuck ( The Hazards of Good Breeding) explores the lives of three widows at the tail end of World War II in this redemptive tale. ![]()
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