Send for Me

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ΓÇó NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ΓÇó An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction that moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin,unspooling a thread of lovelongingand the powerful bonds of family. ΓÇó A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! Based on the authorΓÇÖs own family lettersSend for Me tells the story of Annelisea young woman in prewar Germany. Growing up working at her parentsΓÇÖ popular bakeryshe’s always imagined a future full of delicious possibilities. Despite rumors that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the riseAnnelise and her parents canΓÇÖt quite believe that it will affect them; theyΓÇÖre hardly religious. But as she falls in lovemarriesand gives birth to her daughterthe dangers grow closer. Soon Annelise and her husband are given the chance to leave for Americabut they must go without her parentswhose future and safety are uncertain. Two generations later in a small Midwestern cityAnneliseΓÇÖs granddaughterClareis a young woman newly in love. But when she stumbles upon a trove of the letters her great-grandmother wrote from Germany after Annelise’s departureshe sees the history of her familyΓÇÖs sacrifices in a new lightleading her to question whether she can still honor the past while planning for her future.