This book, Home Sweet Stranger, was inspired by a news story about small former
East German towns that were losing generations of young people to the west even
20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
They were looking, not for freedom, but for economic opportunity, and
they were mostly women. History was
repeating itself, but with an ironic twist.
Germany is the country that invented the term “wanderlust” in part to
describe the migration of young men on their way to become journeymen and
masters in their trades. And now the men were being left behind. I thought,
what if one of the lost daughters came back?
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