Floating in My Mother's Palm

Floating in My Mothers Palm is the compelling and mystical story of Hanna Malter a young girl growing up in 1950s Burgdorf the small German town Ursula Hegi so brilliantly brought to life in her bestselling novel Stones from the River. Hannas courageous voice evokes her unconventional mother who swims during thunderstorms; the illegitimate son of an American GI who learns from Hanna about his father; and the librarian Trudi Montag who lets Hanna see her hometown from a dwarfs extraordinary point of view. Although Ursula Hegi wrote Floating in My Mothers Palm first it can be read as a sequel to Stones from the River.