Gretel and the Great War Book Club and Mul Singh

and Mul Singh

Follow Grace Banker’s journey from her busy life as a telephone switchboard trainer in New York to her pioneering role as the Chief Operator of the 1st Unit of World War I telephone operators in the battlefields of France

Along the way we see no shortage of insight into exactly how Allied airmen eventually prevailed

Rudy and his mother struggle to move on

there has never been a forum such as the one presented here that placed so many of the varying threads of this complex historiography into conversation with one another in a manner that is at once accessible and provocative

Gretel and the Great War Book Club and Mul SinghDescription by Adam Ehrlich Sachs Paperback One of Lit Hub's most anticipated books of 2024 One of Bloomberg's nine best books of the summer "Inventive . . . Whimsical . . . Fusing period atmosphere with fairy tale, Ehrlich Sachs hints at modern themes while summoning an unexpected imaginary place." The New Yorker "Sachs draws from the madcap, darkly comic tradition of postmodern European fiction to reimagine the continents catastrophic destiny . . .