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I think The Puzzle Women has a dual meaning as a title. It’s actually what the men and women piecing together the Stasi’s archived and shredded documents are called. But it’s also a metaphor for all the women in the book, all missing pieces of themselves.
Lotte is desperate to know her Mama.
The women they encounter in the refuge Rune recognizes are all broken in some way.
The role of Nanya and Isolde to help women to find themselves again.
How even The Puzzle Women themselves have lives that are fractured.
How Berlin was broken and divided, then united, but the differences between living on either side are still very present.
This book looks at breaking and mending, scars and trauma, puzzle is a great word to...[read on]
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