The German Bride is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.


Copyright © 2008 by Joanna Hershon
Excerpt from A Dual Inheritance © 2013 by Joanna Hershon


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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Hershon, Joanna.
The German bride : a novel / Joanna Hershon.
p.                   cm.
1. Germans—United States—Fiction. 2. Family secrets—Fiction. 3. Domestic fiction. 4. Jews—Fiction. 5. Jewish fiction. I. Title.
PS3558.E788G47 2007
813'.54—dc22                                              2007032842


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