Chris Bohjalian

Events: Breakfast with the Authors 2009 (Tickets $20)

Book: Skeletons at the Feast

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Chris Bohjalian is the author of eleven novels, including the New York Times bestsellers The Double Bind, Before You Know Kindness, The Law of Similars, and Midwives. He won the New England Book Award in 2002, and his novel, Midwives, was a selection of Oprah’s Book Club and New England Booksellers Association Discovery pick. He has written for a variety of magazines, including Cosmopolitan and the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, and has been a Sunday columnist for the Burlington Free Press since 1992.

His latest novel, Skeletons at the Feast, is a dramatic love story that captures both the power and poignancy of romance and the terror and tragedy of war. In the waning months of the Second World War, a small group of people are attempting to cross the remnants of the Third Reich to reach the British and American lines. Among the group are 18-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats; her lover Callum Finella, a 20-year-old prisoner-of-war, who was brought to her family’s farm in forced labor; and a 26-year-old Wehrmacht corporal who is, in reality, Uri Singer, a German Jew who escaped from a train bound for Auschwitz. As the three of them, with Anna’s mother and younger brother, work their way west, they encounter a ravaged countryside that is both horrific and surreal.