Unexploded Ordnance: What She Felt. What They Feared. How They Survived. What They Saw. -- Catharina Coenen, Paperback

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Unexploded Ordnance: What She Felt. What They Feared. How They Survived. What They Saw. -- Catharina Coenen, PaperbackWINNER OF THE 2023 RESTLESS BOOKS PRIZE FOR NEW IMMIGRANT WRITING In imaginative prose that interrogates the past with a poet's curiosity and a scientist's pen, Unexploded Ordnance seeks to answer how we are shaped by the stories we inherit. After moving from Germany to the US to work as a professor of biology, Catharina Coenen takes up residence in a second language to voice the questions she could not ask at home. To what extent was her grandfather

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