Where did the idea for this story come from? Here, McConaghy discusses climate change, the migratory patterns of birds, and building a sense of place. Independent booksellers across the country have chosen Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron) as their number-one pick for the August 2020 Indie Next List. Annette Binder has crafted a spellbinding novel about the choices we make for country and for family.Facebook Pinterest Permanent Link: This Month's #1 Indie Next List Pick Author Interview Drawing inspiration from her own father's time in the Hitler Youth, L. The Vanishing Sky is a World War II novel as seen through a German lens, a story of the irreparable damage of war on the home front, and one family's participation-involuntary, unseen, or direct-in a dangerous regime. Meanwhile, miles away, her younger son Georg has taken his fate into his own hands, deserting his young class of battle-bound soldiers to set off on a long and perilous journey home. Etta strives to protect him from the Nazi rule, even as her husband, Josef, becomes more nationalistic and impervious to Max's condition. When Max returns from the front, Etta quickly realizes that something is not right-he is thin, almost ghostly, and behaving very strangely. Etta, a mother from a small, rural town, has two sons serving their home country: her elder, Max, on the Eastern front, and her younger, Georg, at a school for Hitler Youth. In 1945, as the war in Germany nears its violent end, the Huber family is not yet free of its dangers or its insidious demands. Included in the New York Times Book Review's Summer Reading Guide for Historical Fiction For readers of Warlight and The Invisible Bridge, an intimate, harrowing story about a family of German citizens during World War II.
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