German Awakening: Tales from an American Life

Synopsis

A Small-town Teacher's Kid, Little Sister Of A Genius, Amy Hallberg Dreamed Of Escape By Way Of A West German Exchange In 1987. The Resulting Friendship With Her Exchange Sister, Eva, Awakened A Lifelong Quest To Understand All Things German. Back Home In Minnesota, Hallberg Embarked On A German Literature Major Just As The Berlin Wall Fell. As Frau Hallberg, High School Teacher, She Hoped To Impart Vital Knowledge (in A Language She'd Never Mastered, On A Country Where She'd Never Truly Lived). She Soon Discovered The Most Profound Lessons Were Notes To Self, Delivered Not In German, But In Her Own Mother Tongue.