Stones from the River

From the acclaimed author of Floating in My Mother???s Palm and Children and Fire, a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times??????epic, daring, magnificent, the product of a defining and mesmerizing vision??? (Los Angeles Times). Trudi Montag is a Zwerg???a dwarf???short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share???from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he???s a girl, to the Jews Trudi harbors in her cellar. Ursula Hegi brings us a timeless and unforgettable story in Trudi and a small town, weaving together a profound tapestry of emotional power, humanity, and truth.