Nico Muhly
1) The reader
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
"What have we learned (and what might we have forgotten) from history's bloody backwash? Guilt, love, and history are three skeins, woven together to create human beings or, alternately, human monsters. The question of wartime culpability undergirds the May-December romance in postwar Berlin between Hanna, a weary-looking, sexually rapacious streetcar ticket-taker and Michael, a young schoolboy whom she seduces, ravenously and to his great delight....
2) The humans
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter's apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group's deepest fears are laid bare
3) Margaret
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
After a teenage girl witnesses a bus accident that kills a woman, she feels she may have played a role in the incident and tries to make people understand what really happened.