Title 1,000 coils of fear : a novel / Olivia Wenzel ; translated from the German by Priscilla Layne.

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First Catapult edition.

Publication Info.	New York : Catapult, [2022]
	©2022

Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2942503~S1

Location	Call No.	Status
Nichols Adult Fiction	F WENZEL	DUE 05-02-24

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Description	279 pages ; 21 cm
Summary	A young woman attends a play about the fall of the Berlin Wall--and realizes she is the only Black person in the audience. She and her boyfriend hang out by a lake outside Berlin--and four neo-Nazis show up. In New York, she is having sex with a stranger on the night of the 2016 presidential election--and wakes up to panicked texts from her friends in Germany about Donald Trump’s unlikely victory. Engaging in a witty Q&A with herself--or is it her alter ego?--she takes stock of our rapidly changing times, sometimes angry, sometimes amused, sometimes afraid, and always passionate. And she tells the story of her family: her mother, a punk in former East Germany who never had the freedom she dreamed of. Her Angolan father, who returned to his home country before she was born to start a second family.
Subject	Black people -- Germany -- Fiction.
	Racially mixed people -- Germany -- Fiction.
	Racism -- Germany -- Fiction.
	Bisexuals -- Germany -- Fiction.
	Anxiety -- Fiction.
	Families -- Fiction.
	Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction.
	Belonging (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
	Germany -- Race relations -- Fiction.
	Berlin (Germany) -- Fiction.
	Germany (East) -- Fiction.
Genre	Bildungsromans.
Added Author	Layne, Priscilla, translator.
Added Title	1,000 Serpentinen Angst. English.
	One thousand coils of fear
	Thousand coils of fear
ISBN	9781646220502 (paperback)
	1646220501 (paperback)

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