Gray. Paula stayed in bed. It was Christmas Eve. She was going to visit her mother. Did Willi want to join? The food wasn’t going to be much. Not like Haus Vaterland. But . . . “I’ll take a rain check.” He leaned and kissed her. “Like you said, there’s no need to rush.” Outside, buttoning his coa...
Then he was nine, and it felt as if his world had collapsed. Now he was thirty-four and his sense of self felt almost as badly assaulted. All his years of hard work had been indelibly tainted. And why? Because he’d opened his mouth. At first he’d wanted to run to Dr. Weiss...