Presenter, journalist and author Christine Westermann presents her book recommendation here every two weeks. This time: Daniela Dröscher’s “Lies about my mother”.
It was real shit! It was old-fashioned to provincial!” – Author Daniela Dröscher put this exclamation from Monaco Franze at the beginning of her book. In it she tells the story of her childhood in a small town in the Hunsrück in the early 1980s. At the end, after 441 pages, you know why these sentences are at the beginning 441 pages of scenes from a marriage that could hardly be sadder and yet more encouraging.
Daniela Dröscher tells a lot, but not everything. She pauses after each chapter, asks her mother, wants to know if it was as she, the daughter, remembers. She adds, she omits. She wants to tell her mother’s story in a way that protects her. Which she succeeds in on every page.