Wunderland by Jennifer Cody Epstein

Author:Jennifer Cody Epstein
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Published: 2019-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

10.

Ilse

1937

APRIL 10

DAM-GROSSER, EAST PRUSSIA

Dear Renate:

I will never send this letter to you. In all likelihood, I won’t keep it at all. I will finish it, and burn it, and scatter the ashes in the vegetable garden the other girls and I have planted behind our house. And yet as I go through my days in this strange German-but-not-German town, I find myself writing it anyway.

At first it was just in my head, so subtly and naturally that I didn’t realize it was a letter at all. When I did, of course, I tried to stop. But this little mental pen—I picture it as the fancy jade one you once gave me for Christmas—just continued scribbling away, and the more I ignored it the more insistently it scribbled. Last night it actually kept me awake—and this after a morning spent sowing a ten-hectare potato field, with no help but a German farmer and a doddering workhorse named Bobik. I finally dragged myself up before dawn and down to the darkened kitchen to let the words out onto the page.

Which leaves me here, at half past three in the morning, composing a letter I can’t seem to not write, to a person to whom I know I can no longer write.

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