Welcome to Litsy!

This memoir covers the rise of Nazism, WWII and its aftermath through the eyes of a Black German child in Hamburg. Plus more: after the war, the author moved briefly to his father's home in Liberia, then to the US where he became a journalist and eventually managing editor at Ebony Magazine. The story is as surprising and fascinating as it sounds, and Massaquoi's skills for character sketch and anecdote are strong.

#DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

1. Destined to Witness by Hans Massaquoi;
By Love Possessed by James Gould Cozzens;
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young

2. From Here To Eternity by James Jones

3. The tagged book, last night.

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

Last night I opened my #doublespin book: a memoir of a German childhood in what I had assumed was the original German. So I was surprised to see credits for the translation. It turns out that after WWII, the author emigrated to the United States, where he made a career as a journalist and editor. So the original language of Massaquoi's memoir is English, and I'm switching to that.

@TheAromaofBooks